But, the chapel, which was carved out of a corn field on a 23-acre plot owned by the Adorers of the Blood of Christ order of nuns in Lancaster County Pa, is actually surrounded by a Wendy’s fast-food restaurant, a Ford dealership, a Sheetz gas station and the St. Anne’s Retirement Community, which the order also owns.

The makeshift chapel is one of several structures hastily erected by the anti-pipeline activist group Lancaster Against Pipelines—including one they call “The Stand” in tribute to the #NoDAPL protests at Standing Rock—in an effort to slow down construction of the Atlantic Sunrise pipeline. While all of the structures are easily torn down, the activists hope they will “serve as the center of an encampment of people who will be there permanently.”

The activists built the chapel to bolster a religious freedom lawsuit that the nuns recently filed against the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission claiming the pipeline would violate their religious freedom. Specifically, the nuns “believe that God calls humans to treasure land as a gift of beauty and sustenance that should not be used in an excessive or harmful way.”

Ironically, once it’s completed, the pipeline will be more in line with that belief than all of the other man-made structures on the nuns’ property.

According to Williams Partners which is building the pipeline, “there will be very little evidence that a pipeline is present” once it is safely buried three to five feet below the surface. The same cannot be said for the St. Anne’s Retirement Community or for the 14 acres that the nuns had hoped to sell to a developer who planned to build housing for low- and middle-income seniors.

To be sure, the order is well within its legal and ethical rights to develop their land any way they see fit, since that area is designated as a high-density residential zone in the township’s future land-use plan. But their embrace of multi-family residential construction would suggest that their lawsuit is less about their religious right to “treasure land as a gift of beauty,” and more about Lancaster Against Pipelines’ embrace of the “Keep It in the Ground” movement’s activist agenda.

This isn’t the first time anti-pipeline activists have sued on religious grounds to stop pipeline construction. Last February, the Standing Rock Sioux tribe argued in court that “the mere presence of the oil in the pipeline [under Lake Oahe] renders the water spiritually impure.” They soon withdrew that suit after it was pointed out that oil had been flowing in pipelines under the lake since 1985.

It’s unlikely that the nuns’ lawsuit will fare any better.