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Considering faith as confidence in the perpetuation of identities, an element common to both heritage and religion, this paper presents the results of a study of the heritagization process of a Christian chapel in Loul\u00e9 (Algarve, Portugal), where traces of the city\u2019s Islamic past were uncovered, and of the strategies implemented considering the site\u2019s overlapping meanings. 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