Denmark's tiny church celebrates community within 12 walls - one for each apostle
After months of construction, it's now an outpost of the local Evangelical-Lutheran Hans Egedes Church. The parish's leaders saw a need for extra spiritual space as the Danish capital is expected to grow by 20 per cent over the next decade. 'At the old days, you build a church, and the church will make a community, and then you build the city.
Today, it's the opposite,' project manager Johanne Dal-Lewkovitch said. 'You build the city, and then there's a need for a church. So it's a little bit strange.'
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