St Joseph's Chapel in Yim Tin Tsai, Catholic chapel in Sai Kung District, Hong Kong

St Joseph's Chapel stands on a hill on Yim Tin Tsai, a small island in Port Shelter, Sai Kung District. The 24-metre-long, 9-metre-wide chapel was designed by priests of the Milan Foreign Missions Society in an Italian Romanesque style. Inside, the pre-Second Vatican Council altar holds a statue of St Joseph, with a niche for the chalice and a drain hole that lets washing water seep straight into the soil.

Father Gaetano Origo reached Yim Tin Tsai in 1865 to preach Catholicism, and by 1867 a chapel already stood on the island. The whole village was baptised in 1875, and in 1890 residents built this second St Joseph's Chapel on a hillock as the village's religious centre. It was renovated in 1948 and 1962, restored from 2004, and reopened on 2 May 2004.

Every May, members of the Chan clan who left Yim Tin Tsai gather at the chapel for the annual Feast of St Joseph. Since 2004 the Sai Kung parish and Caritas Hong Kong have run monthly pilgrimage and ecology tours, and villagers operate a small museum in the former Ching Po School next door.

The chapel stands on a hill above Yim Tin Tsai village, reached by ferry from Sai Kung Town and then a walk along the island path. Restoration in 2004 also repaired the courtyard, basketball court and the two classrooms of the former Ching Po School, now a village museum run by residents.

The UNESCO Asia-Pacific Award for Cultural Heritage Conservation came on 7 May 2006, not 2005, as an Honourable Mention. The restoration itself was modest: with only US$150,000 from the L&T Charitable Fund, the team applied a "no addition, no subtraction" approach, keeping the corrugated asbestos-free roof and coating it brick-red as a landmark.