Snow+Church

Locals built a Catholic Church made of ice and snow in Mitterfirmiansreut, Germany. Catholic Church Dean Kajetan Steinbeisser tells ABC News, ‘It was meant as an act of provocation. Believers from the village got together and built a snow church because they didn’t have a church here’. Catholic Church Dean Kajetan Steinbeisser tells ABC News, ‘It was meant as an act of provocation. Believers from the village got together and built a snow church because they didn’t have a church here’. The structure is 65 feet tall and nicknamed God's igloo. It cost more than $200,000 and used 49,000 cubic feet of snow to construct and was delayed by a few weeks due to warm weather.
 * In Germany, a church made from snow and ice**