Here's the world's largest church built with $300m, and sits on a 30,000 sq meter land

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  • JACK TORONTO 3 months ago

    Nana AKUFFO ADDO wanted to build a cathedral as a promised he made to God, but he later embezzled funds from the taxpayers money to dig the biggest pit on earth. His mission was to destroyed some bangalows built by JOHN MAHAM ...
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  • FRANKIE 3 months ago

    Religion is merely a cultural understanding of the supernatural and that is why Arabs are Moslems, Europeans are Christian, Indians are Hinduists, Chinese are Buddhists, Japanese are Shintoists, Jews are Judaic etc. It is onl ...
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  • Benji 3 months ago

    $300 million in 1985 is worth over $950 million today.

  • Your abuse back to you in droves 3 months ago

    Say that again ooo. Say that again

  • prophet mohammed was a sick dog 3 months ago

    Say no to islam and convert to a real religion.
    Allah is satanic scum and qur'an is toilet paper..........Search online for ways to move away from evil islam. You can join ex-muslim groups online and be safe........you ar ...
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  • Dungeon Master 3 months ago

    @ Frankie,

    And you seem to have conveniently glossed over the fact that Christianity isn't of European origin but Jewish, which pollinated across the world, including Europe.
    Don't blame Africans for adopting Christianit ...
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  • Kojo Sromani 3 months ago

    No, you've got it wrong. Judaism is Jewish. Jews don't have christianity, and they don't recognize Christianity as a true religion of God. They don't even recognize Jesus as the messiah. Christianity originated from Rome; an ...
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  • P Djamgbe 3 months ago

    @Kojo Sromani, nice one mate - overwhelming majority of Christians, especially African Christians, don't know the true history of Christianity other than what they are being told by their scamming pastors

  • JD 3 months ago

    Frankie you made my day! Our people still cannot in any streach of imagination get it!

  • Asem 3 months ago

    The Christian church that planned and established slavery and its sister crime of colonialism, forcibly and violently imposed their religion at the cost of hundreds of thousands of innocent vulnerable Africans who had insiste ...
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  • Sycamore 3 months ago

    If the westerners were greedy and selfish, how about our own ancestors? Our own ancestors sold their own children at the time to the Whiteman for pettiness. Come to think of it,did the white man enter our homes and villages t ...
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  • Your abuse back to you in droves 3 months ago

    Good piece. Food for thought.

  • The Spear 3 months ago

    I referred to this several times while opposing Akufo-Addo's thieving and embezzlement schemes behind the stupid Cathedral project.

    Felix Houphouet-Boigny did that only because it was his native town. Hypocritical as he wa ...
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  • Ghanaman 3 months ago

    Man was created to worship God. Whatever you do in this world, you will by all means worship something or someone. If not God, then it will be one or more of the myriad of idols....pleasure, nature, sex, drugs, self,
    demon s ...
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  • Stephen Donkor, New York. 3 months ago

    @ I’M GETTING FRUSTRATED WITH THE NPP COMMUNICATIONS TEAM. THE ARM CHAIR POLITICS MUST STOP! I EXPECTED THE NPP COMMUNICATION TEAM TO HOLD A PRESS CONFERENCE TODAY THE WORLD BANK’S DOUBLE STANDARDS! BECAUSE BACK IN 2022 - ...
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  • Akos9 3 months ago

    Thanks frankie and that's why Africans look for God but can't find it because they look for God outside themselves and their culture environment.

  • Paa Rasta 3 months ago

    FRANKIE YOURE AN IDIOT. BUT YOURE MAKING A LOT OF SENSE TODAY.

  • Dungeon Master 3 months ago

    And you seem to have conveniently glossed over the fact that Christianity isn't of European origin but Jewish, which pollinated across the world, including Europe.
    Don't blame Africans for adopting Christianity. Europeans al ...
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  • Sycamore 3 months ago

    I couldn't have agreed with you less. We're such a stupid group of people led by even more stupid people calling themselves politicians.

  • THE BASILICA HAS BEEN SLOWLY CRUMBLING WITH BITS OF MASONRY FALLING AWAY. IT HAS BECOME WAY TOO EXPENSIVE TO MAINTAIN 3 months ago

    The cost of maintaining this obscenely expensive monstrosity in the middle of nowhere has become unsustainable so not surprisingly the structure is now in a terrible state . How many visitors go there every year?

  • Kwadwo 3 months ago

    A huge crocodile pond that was built as part of the Basilica complex, could not be serviced or maintained. The crocs have therefore been sneaking out from their enclosure at night and making a meal out of the inhabitants of n ...
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  • VERY TRUE, ESPECIALLY AROUND THE PRESIDENTIAL PALACE OF THE LATE PREZ H-B.. 3 months ago

    The late president of Ivory Coast deliberately introduced Crocodiles into the area but as you noted because the croc population has exploded and just like the rest of this disgraceful edifice have also been neglected hungry c ...
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  • Asem 3 months ago

    It is said that the eurocentric Catholic hierarchy was so annoyed by Houphouet Boignys disrespectful effort to not only duplicate but to actually outdo the iconic and historical St. Peters Basilica in Rome that, it took over ...
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  • Okyere 3 months ago

    Nana Addo spent more than that for pit of just 5,000 capacity cathedral. Even Perez chapel with 12,000 capacity was built with less than $5million.

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  • New order 3 months ago

    Like it is the criminal nana addo aboa he will you 1 trillion dollars to build this . All NPP idiots are brain dead

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  • Nana K 3 months ago

    Another foolish African

  • Buglisongo 3 months ago

    Ah,didnt they say that David Oyedepo's church is de largest? Dont confuse us oo

  • Barko osae twum 3 months ago

    This is a place the catholic faith and church in africa should unite under one umbrella to project to the world that as catholic faiths they dont have to travel to the vatican to feel the power of their faith. They should all ...
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  • Barko osae twum 3 months ago

    Africans should be also proud of showboys scammed world record biggest hole in the entire world at a cost of nearly $100million dollars. Its now the largest man made one district one factory breeder of frogs and mosquitos in ...
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  • Northern Boy 3 months ago

    That's the meaning of backward thinking. That's stupidity at its best.

  • AKUFFO-ADDO VERSUS HOUPHET BOIGNY-kwabena ohemeng,london 3 months ago

    Houphet Boigny's white elephant!!!. Akuffo-Addo took an inspiration from him. When the nation's economy was down and Ghanaians struggling to have 2 meals a day he chose to build a Cathedral with the foundation alone costin ...
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  • Your abuse back to you in droves 3 months ago

    Meanwhile they are no portable water, good roads,good hospitals, good schools et al. Hmmm.

  • KWAME NKRUMAH NOA NA OMPER YASEM NO 3 months ago

    No! That is not true, the biggest church is in Ghana the one Nana Akufo Ado built, the hole Cathedral

  • Agyemang Badu 3 months ago

    What about Okomfo Anokye? The thief whose face looks welded. Should Antoa Nyamaa shrine be expanded and built magnificently to serve as an edifice to Kankan Nyame?

  • JCG 3 months ago

    It's worth visiting. Great spiritual monument. God bless the president who built it.

  • Bk 3 months ago

    You’re a certified fool

  • NOT IN AFRICAN TRADITIONAL RELIGION-Ghanawatch 3 months ago

    African traditional religion doesn't indulge in such stupidities. Why? It isn't an imported religion. It does not involve worshipping an imposed foreign God. We worship our own God called Onyankopon.

  • Bro kwesi 3 months ago

    Ghanaians fought against the National Cathedral.Check your life and be truthful with yourself .Is it really well with you financially???Those who went swimming in the foundation hole of the National Cathedral go and ask them ...
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  • Agyemang Badu 3 months ago

    What about Antoa Nyamaa Shrine of Ghana. Please make it a 1.2 trillion dollars shrine. It will serve as a tourist attraction of the great Ashante people. Are Ashantes not better than the white Roman people and their cathedral ...
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  • Kotibrim 3 months ago

    ...And behold, nana addo dug a whole!!! Amen!!!

  • NANA ADDO'S CATHEDRAL 3 months ago

    NPP's biggest $58 million S**t Hole.

  • Kweku Boateng Jnr. 3 months ago

    If only this was a cocoa or coffee or cashew factory?

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  • Moses 3 months ago

    If the building was a car manufacturer company, I can imagine how many citizen it would employed and other jobs could be created, but that is black Africa leaders for you

  • Gh 3 months ago

    And akufo ado, ugly bastarrd used over 90 million dollars to dig a hole..akufo ado is suppose to be in nsawam by now n only come out to lie next to jb danquah grave at nsawam

  • Samson 3 months ago

    H Biogny will surely be in the lower astral realms maybe level -2. The money he used to build this structure was either stolen or misappropriated. Our God, the Absolute will not look kindly upon such misbehaviour.

  • = 3 months ago

    CHURCH IS JUST A MONEY MAKING VENTURE . SCAM

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  • Nosacrilege 3 months ago

    who cares about the biggest church in the world. Your heart is the most important

  • Imani 3 months ago

    Absolute rubbish.

  • Kwame Nkrumah 3 months ago

    No comments

  • Bishop 3 months ago

    Go and tell that your akufu addo that building such a grande edifice is just being ridiculously simple minded

  • Rita 3 months ago

    It would have employed Azaa Pastors in their numbers. Chai

  • Kyinkyinaatwan 3 months ago

    We seem to have so many educated illiterates in the country. The story has nothing to do with Ghana's aborted national cathedral as a lot has been said about it and will continue to be discussed. Those commenting on the natio ...
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  • Nii Joromi 3 months ago

    This is what mentality enslaved educated/miseducated African leaders leave for posterity. Damn useless vanity projects. The drooling dwarf left an expensive hole in an attempt to probably follow the Ivorian stupidity.

  • Aben 3 months ago

    The Cologne Dome can seat 20k worshippers at a time

  • JULOR CAESAR 3 months ago

    A waste. The funds used to build that white elephant could have gone into building clinics and bore holes in many rural communities. Instead of engaging in projects that would benefit the citizens, that useless President chos ...
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  • Sycamore 3 months ago

    That was a very foolish man as president of foolish country, so this's is what the clueless old criminal called Akufu-Addo wanted to replicate in Ghana? Jesus Christ!

  • True Ghanaian 3 months ago

    Only brainless african leaders will do this. The great kwame nkrumah wohld have built factories.