If you head up from the village square towards the mountains about 1/2 a mile up, there is a fork in the roads. Also at this fork there is the confluence of the two rivers that make up the two ancient valleys. Cwm Bychan and Cwm Nantcol. Take the right fork and then immediately left and over the cattle grid. This area is known in Welsh as the Cefn Cymerau or Trans "Meeting place".On your immediate left you will see three cottages. A hundred yards up the hill you will see on your left  Capel Salem.

During the last century, religious revival swept over this area with almost fanatical fervour. These valleys were inhabited by perhaps three hundred people,mostly farmers.

  Methodism had spread by the awe inspiring religious preachers who were able to hold a congregations attention for over an hour.
To start with, in this area, the congregations would meet at the side of the river, down by the three cottages. Baptisms were performed in the river. By enlarge the congregations realised they were her to stay, and by the 1850's decided to build the chapel we see today.
This little chapel, nestling on the side of a Welsh hillside,  would probably have remained just another chapel, had it not been for a visit by Curnow Vosper, at the turn of the century. Vosper, already an artist of note, painted the chapel with a congregation at prayer. All the characters are local the central figure is Sian Owen. At that time, those that went to chapel were expected to show some restraint in there dress code. Sian decided to wear her new colourful shawl for the sittings. When the painting was finished, the head of the devil shows himself within the folds of the shawl. Can you see the head of the Devil?
Lord Leverhulme purchased the original painting in 1909 and kept it at the museum at Port Sunlight.