Taiwan's Glass Slippers Church (Photo : YouTube)
If there is a fairy tale of an old woman who lives inside a giant show with her children, in Taiwan, there is a real glass slippers church built to attract female churchgoers.
Mashable reports that the place of worship, inspired by the glass slipper of another fairy tale character, Cinderella, is found at the Ocean View Park in Budai Town, located at Taiwan's east coast. According to Huanqiu, the church is made 100 percent of 320 pieces of blue tinted glass and stands 55 feet tall and measures 36 feet wide.
It took only two months to put up and would open to the public before Feb. 8 which is the Chinese Lunar New Year. It would have 100 female-oriented features such as chairs for lovers, maple leaves, biscuits and cakes to attract women, says Zheng Rongfeng, spokesman of the Southwest Coast National Scenic Area.
Zheng did not specify for which denomination was the uniquely shaped church built. The massive shape and structure makes it a tourist attraction as local and foreign visitors take photos of the glass church and themselves.
Christian Post, citing CIA data, notes that Christians comprise only 4.5 percent of Taiwan residents, while the majority belong to other religions such as Buddhism and Taoism.
In a nearby Asian country, the Philippines located south of Taiwan, there is also a giant shoe found in the middle of Marikina River, another red giant shoe under the Marikina Bridge and a giant pink shoe made by the family of the city's former mayor, Bayani Fernando. Marikina is known as the shoe capital of the Philippines and had contributed to the 3,000 pairs of shoes that former First Lady Imelda Marcos left in Malacanang Palace when the Marcos family were driven out of the country in 1986 by a popular peaceful revolution.
