” “The new Church of the Most Holy Trinity in Fatima, Portugal, will be opened on 12th October (but works will end on 9th October) in the presence of cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Secretary of State of the Holy See. The new Church, which cost 70 million euros, funded by the congregation itself, has been designed by an Orthodox architect, the Greek Alexandros Tombazis, who said to the Catholic agency "Ecclesia" that "he had no confessional problems" in building the Church. A huge artistic work was made by Father Ivan Rupnik, Croatian, who is also the author of the Chapel of Redemptoris Mater in the Apostolic Palace of the Holy See. The new Church will be round in shape, 125 metres in diameter, and will be supported by two big pillars. A design that combines light and technology, with 8,800 seats over two separated areas. The building the largest work of its kind ever made in Portugal will have 13 doors: 12 side doors about the Apostles, made of bronze, and one central door, of 64 square metres, with artistic motifs about God and the Trinity. There will be statues of John Paul II, Paul VI, Pius XII and the bishop Josè Alves Correia da Silva. A central area called "reconciliation zone" will be devoted to confessions, with three chapels within it.” “
