A church built entirely of ice and snow has opened in Bavaria -- a century after villagers first built a snow church in an act of protest, the Huffington Post website reports today (December 29, 2011).
The church at Mitterfirmiansreut -- near the German-Czech Republic border -- is more than 65 feet in length and boasts a tower. It is made up of some 49,000 cubic feet of snow.
The structure was bathed in blue light as it opened last night with a blessing from Dean Kajetan Steinbeisser.
Steinbeisser said that when the ancestors of today's villagers built the first snow church in 1911, "it was meant as an act of provocation. Believers from the village got together and built a snow church because they didn't have a church here."
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