The Green Cathedral

The Green Cathedral or De Groene Kathedraal located near Almere Netherlands, is an artistic planting of Lombardy poplars that mimics the scale and form of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Reims, France. The Green Cathedral is a hundred and fifty m lengthy and 75 m extensive, and the mature poplar bushes are approximately 30 m tall. The work changed into planted with the aid of Marinus Boezem on April sixteen, 1987, in Southern Flevoland. The land art undertaking changed into set up on polder land. 178 timber have been planted on a knoll, a half-metre above the encircling place. Over the subsequent years, some bushes had been changed because of deer harm, and stone changed into laid inside the floor to echo the pass ribs and help beams of the cathedral.

Now mature, the cathedral has come to be a vicinity for weddings, funerals, conferences and non secular offerings of all kinds. Nearby, a clearing has been made in a young beech woodland in order that the open area is inside the shape of the same cathedral. Boezem indicates, as the poplars decline, the beech timber across the clearing will grow to create the church once more thus ensuring a cyclical evolution of increase, decline and boom.