President Akufo-Addo has laid the foundation stone to signify the beginning of construction on the National Cathedral. The hundred million dollar edifice which will be completed in four years is expected to signify a physical embodiment of unity, harmony and spirituality.
President Akufo-Addo said the Cathedral will be a rallying point for Christians to worship and will be an iconic infrastructure for religious tourism.
He said his administration is constructing a national cathedral as an act of thanksgiving as God has been faithful to the fortunes of this country. He said Ghana has so far been spared civil war, famine and epidemic and believes it is by the grace of God that we are being sustained.
He said the construction of the national cathedral is therefore an act of thanksgiving to the Almighty for his blessing, favour, grace and mercy on our nation.
He said “We are certainly no better than the other nations in our neighborhood who have been confronted with these challenges. I believe it is by the grace of God that we have been preserved and sustained. The construction of the Cathedral will be an act of thanksgiving to the Almighty for His Blessings, Grace, Favour, and Mercies on our nation”.
President Akufo-Addo said “seventy-one percent of the Ghanaian people adhere to the Christian religion grouped under the various persuasions of the Christian Faith. The interdenominational National Cathedral will help unify the Christian community and thereby help promote national unity and social coercion”.
The structure will have a replica of the Garden of Gethsemane and the Wailing Wall in Israel. The idea of the two significant places is to enable people who cannot afford travelling to those sights to have a feel of it in Ghana.
On March 6, 2017, President Akufo-Addo set the ball rolling for the construction of a National Cathedral to be sited close to the State House in Accra.
The architecture design by British-Ghanaian architect Sir David Adjaye, will house chapels and baptistery, 5000 seats in the main auditorium, expandable to 15 thousand people for national events and celebrations.
It will also include a grand central hall, a music school, and will house Africa’s first-ever Bible Museum and documentation centre.
The foundation stone was laid at where the altar will be built. And to make it very significant, the foundation stone was flown from Israel from the wailing wall.
