WORLD’S SMALLEST CHURCH
BUILT BY ONE MAN WITH BITS OF BROKEN CHINA (By Air Mail—From A Special Correspondent; LONDON, 12th September. For forty years a monk has been building the smallest church in the world at Guernsey in the Channel Islands. Now he is over 70 and the church is nearly finished. Already an American tourist has offered to buy the church for £6,000 and take it to America. The offer was refused. The monk has used small pieces of broken china and pebbles to form patterns on walls and ceiling.. Guernsey people sent him their broken china, and small statues have been given by visitors. The church holds only six people. There is a beautiful altar built of the broken china and a figure of the Virgin Mary. Underneath the church is a crypt witli another altar. The monk has also built a beautiful grotto at the foot of the church where people go and pray daily.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 7 October 1936, Page 4
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