Foster building to spread God to iPod generation
Robert Booth
AN EVANGELICAL Christian group has appointed Lord Foster, the architect,
to convert a disused Victorian church into a television studio to
broadcast its sermons worldwide.
The Alpha course movement, popular with urban professionals, will use
the architect’s first church building to relay its teachings to
devotees’ computers in more than 150 countries.
More than 9m people worldwide have taken the course and the west London
centre will be used to help develop missions in India, Africa and China.
“Digital technology is to our era what Gutenberg was to the 15th century
when he created the press to print the Bible,” said Ken Costa, the
chairman of Alpha. “This is a new technological revolution in the way
Christianity will be spread. It is Christ for the iPod generation.”
Costa, who is also chairman of the European investment division of UBS,
the Swiss bank, has hired Foster to draw up the plans for a “come and
see” studio that involves a broadcast-quality auditorium inserted in the
19th-century St Paul’s Church on Onslow Square, Knightsbridge.
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