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More articles on this topic: Kingsway International Christian CentreIt will hold five times as many worshippers as Westminster Abbey and its baptism fonts will be the size of Jacuzzis. An attempt to build Britain’s first Pentecostal mega-church, with room for a congregation of 10,000, will go before planners tonight.
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The controversial Nigerian television preacher Matthew Ashimolowo is behind the scheme to build the Kingsway International Christian Centre – bigger than any cathedral or mosque in the country – next to the town of Rainham in east London.
Its auditorium would span an area the size of the Wembley football pitch. More than 1,000 Pentecostalists are expected at the planning meeting at Stratford town hall tonight, where they will meet at least 200 opponents of the £70m plan.
Church leaders believe the meeting represents the biggest test yet of the country’s willingness to accept US-style Pentecostalism. It is England’s fastest-growing branch of Christianity and now attracts an estimated 300,000 people to services every Sunday.
Ashimolowo draws congregations of 6,000 to a disused cinema in Waltham Forest. Now he wants to expand with the help of donations from his congregations at 18 branches in the UK, two churches in Nigeria and one in Ghana, which have risen to £10m a year.
In 2005, Ashimolowo was embroiled in a Charity Commission investigation which ordered him to repay £200,000 to the charity which ran the church.
The church argues that it has already moved to make way for the London 2012 Olympics and says it was offered the land in a deal with the London Development Agency to build a new headquarters. If the plans are rejected, it will appeal. If the scheme is approved, building work is due to be completed by 2013.
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