This Cathedral Provides a Golf Course for Its Congregation

The cathedral is a place of worship for Catholics. Several religious services were conducted there with the bishop.

If usually inside the cathedral contains long chairs, this one cathedral has a different look.

A cathedral called Rochester Cathedral located in England has a small golf course that its congregation can use. The field is located in it.

The course stretches along the alley and has nine holes with miniature bridges. It is meant to teach young people about technique and also has a spiritual feel to it.

Reverend Rachel Philips for Mission and Growth said, “I hope visitors will reflect on the ‘bridges’ that need to be built in their own lives and in our world today.” he said.

“I think it’s a great place that non-religious people come to experience all of this.” said a boy who had been playing on the golf course.

Eliminating Spiritual Nuances

However, there are some people who do not approve of the existence of a golf course in the cathedral. On the Daily Telegraph website, a religious named Tim Stanley commented it was an act of blasphemy. “It makes Catholics look ridiculous.”

Not only that, Anglican pastor Giles Fraser also expressed his disapproval on his Twitter account, “What people want from the church is a kind of moral and spiritual seriousness that they can’t get anywhere else. Not this,” he wrote.

Matthew Rushton of the cathedral said the head of the Church of England, Justin Welby, who is also Archbishop of Canterbury, had responded positively. “If you don’t know how to have fun in a cathedral, then you’re not doing your job right,” Welby said.

Rochester Cathedral isn’t the only British cathedral to experiment with the odd activity. Norwich Cathedral in eastern England is also setting things up by “seeing themselves, through buildings and God differently.”

Source: liputan6