Anne Dobbing and her husband, Peter, created the sanctuary on the Shetland island of Yell, out of second hand and recycled materials.

The Scottish chapel was originally built as a place of personal worship for Mrs Dobbing, whose busy work life left her unable to regularly attend her local church in Lerwick.

Speaking to Premier she said: “When I sit in there and say my prayers, I’m really conscious that it’s just me and God, there is all of this air around me, all of this land and sea and sky.

“I feel very exposed but very close to God in there.”

Anne, who runs a B&B on the island, hopes to use the converted chicken coop to serve and bless the local community by opening the space up for guests to use for personal reflection.

She said: “Some of the people that come and stay here, they come to the peace and quiet, but I sense that some of them maybe not Christian people either, but people that need some spiritual presence in their life, that they would also appreciate a place where they could just be still and quiet, just be peaceful.

“It’s a place that I have made available to anybody really, that stays here.”

A number of images have been placed within the chapel to encourage visitors in their prayer and reflection.

The building recently received a blessing from Father…

Rev Rose Hudson-Wilkin, the current chaplain to the speaker but soon to be Bishop of Dover, opened the event, followed by the Speaker himself, John Bercow.

The annual event held in the Palace of Westminster has previously had speakers such as Tim Keller and Andy Hawthorne from The Message Trust.

This year, as guests tucked into their danish pastries and mushroom and chive frittatas, the Rt Rev Sarah Mullally spoke about the need to look past binary politics and see those who disagree with us as someone made in the image of God.

After a reading of Genesis 1 by Conservative and Christian peer Baroness Berridge, the Bishop of London said: “We risk submitting one binary narrative for another – one in which the main fault lines are cultural and generational, encapsulated by the networked Metropolitan youth versus the old left behind.

“Now, whether or not you agree with this analysis, one of the key issues seems to be the use of binary narratives. The right versus wrong and the report [by St Paul’s Insitute] calls for a politics and a broad public discourse based on a different language, a transcendent conversation, one that can address deeper discussions around questions of meaning, identity, belonging.

“This morning I want to suggest that the Christian faith offers such a language because at our heart is a sense of belonging, of identity and meaning that emerges from…