Our ability to make and build things is just one of the many capabilities we can do. Because of our hands and our willingness to make something that the world can remember, we positively waste our effort and passion. We have worked on beautiful projects that satisfy our innate feelings and dreams.
A man, in the name of Barry Cox is just one of the many. He was always fascinated by the beauty of churches because ever since, his childhood dream was to become the Pope. Cox settled instead for a position as an altar boy at the church in his hometown of Shannon, Harrowhenua, in New Zealand.
His reverence and appreciation for churches led him to become a world traveler. He’s roamed across the American and European continents and his native New Zealand on his motorbike, carefully studying churches and their properties: heights, angles, proportions, porticoes, and roofs.
After several years, he was able to build (without architectural background) something you wouldn’t believe and expect- a beautiful church made of 4,000 trees.
It was called the ‘Tree Church’ and was build right on a 1.2ha property in Cambridge, a town in the Waikato region. The location he chose had the perfect combination of an ideal climate and soil makeup for growing the trees. He cleared the area and began constructing the iron frame, and modeled it after masonry churches, whose roofs and walls have distinct proportions.
The Tree Church officially opened to the public in January of this year. This wasn’t Cox’s original plan, but after his nephew expressed an interest in holding his wedding ceremony at the church, Cox finally opened it up for the rest of the world to see and experience.
This Tree Church is truly the first of its kind. There have been cathedrals found in Italy and the U.K. that were made by setting trees close together, but none are as intricate as this one. In addition to couples wanting to hold their weddings at the church, local garden clubs and gardeners have also expressed fascination at the creativity that went into the building of this church.
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