No, this is not a spoof. Read the amazing story of a town in the Czech Republic, which will shortly become home to the world’s largest 3D-printed church.
The church will be printed and assembled in the town of Neratovice, north of Prague, which communists in the former Czechoslovakia built as the country’s first church-free city.
There seems to be confirmation that the new church’s tower will be constructed using 3D printing technology, but whether the entire church will be printed is yet to be decided, based on calculations and estimation of the building’s vault.
Local parish administrator Father, Peter Kováč, said that 3D printing could bring significant savings: “It is important that the project is sustainable and meaningful financially”, he told a local Catholic weekly.
Apparently donors have already contributed several millions of Czech crowns, and the whole project is estimated to cost some 204 million (more than $8 million).
I just hope they have a very large printer!
Read the full story at the Catholic News Agency here.