Welsh community races to save chapel where Cwm Rhondda hymn first sung

Cwm Rhondda, or Bread of Heaven, was written by John Hughes in 1907 to celebrate a new organ at Capel Rhondda. Photograph: Rhian o Drehopcyn/Crowdfunder

A Welsh valleys community has launched a campaign to save the chapel where the popular hymn Cwm Rhondda, or Bread of Heaven, was first sung.

The composer John Hughes wrote the hymn in 1907 to celebrate a new organ at Capel Rhondda in Hopkinstown, near Pontypridd.