You’ve got to be-leaf!
A New Zealand man, who makes his living removing large trees, mixed faith with foliage to build this chapel made of trees.
The handiwork of former dairy farmer Bryan Cox, 64, has couples lining up to get hitched inside his tremendous work of biblical beauty in the city of Hamilton, on the North Island of New Zealand.
Bryan CoxSally Tagg/Mercury Press“People know how much I love trees,” Cox told the New Zealand news website Stuff, “so they call me when there are trees that would otherwise be cut down or removed. I go ahead and kind of rescue them.”
Cox said he’s always been fascinated with church architecture. He started building his tree church in April 2011, after strolling his grounds.
“I walked out my back door one day and thought, ‘That space needs a church’ — and so it began,” he said.
“I cleared the area in April 2011 and made the iron frame, drawing on all the research I had done over the years on studying churches. I wanted the roof and walls to be distinctly different, to highlight the proportions, just like a masonry church.”
