Nat’l Cathedral “priority among priorities” – Akufo-Addo

President Nana Akufo-Addo has described as a “priority among priorities”, his government’s decision to build a National Cathedral.

“People will ask if it [national cathedral] is a priority. It is a priority among priorities. We’ll never find enough money to do everything we want to do. But we have to begin, and that’s what we have started”, the president said in London when he addressed an investment forum on Monday, 8 October.

“Seventy per cent of the population is Christian”, the president said, adding: “This is the focus that strengthens the community.

“We find ourselves in need of a symbol that the Ghanaian nation can rally behind.

“We see elsewhere in the world huge monuments, and we are going to find the means to sort it out”, he said.

President Akufo-Addo, on Tuesday, 6 March 2018, unveiled the design and architecture of the National Cathedral at a brief ceremony at the Accra International Conference Centre.

It would house impressive chapels and baptistery, a 5,000-capacity auditorium, grand central hall, music school, choir rehearsal and multi-use spaces, an art gallery and a shop.

The president said the edifice was going to be an iconic centre for thanksgiving and to worship God for His mercies.

However, some bungalows accommodating Court of Appeal judges would have to be demolished to make way for the construction of the cathedral.

Source: Ghana/ClassFMonline.com