The enchantingly beautiful live-tree
church in New Zealander Brian Cox’s backyard is already impressive
enough, but it’s even more amazing when you learn that it took him only 4
years to create!
Cox carefully selected from a wide
variety of trees for his beautiful church. Some have stone-colored
trunks, while, others, with sparse foliage, ensure that his church will
always be illuminated by sunlight. His secret is that he owns a
gardening company called Treelocations, which replants whole, live trees
using enormous mechanized spades. This allowed him to plant live trees
in any way he wanted, completing this church (and the iron frame
supporting it) in only 4 years.
Cox was inspired by the years he spent
traveling abroad and observing churches around the world; “I walked out
my back door one day and thought, ‘That space needs a church’ – and so
it began. I cleared the area in April 2011 and made the iron frame,
drawing on all the research I had done over the years of studying
churches,” he told stuff.co.nz.
Image credits: Sally Tagg
(boredpanda.com)
