Architect and Builder Magazine South Africa September/October 2013 | Page 47

To emphasise the star
symbol, the dome has
been capped with a
three dimensional star

The impressive central circular Hall with its
symbolic fourteen sets of columns (14 stops of
the Cross) and thirteen cantilevered balconies
(Christ and 12 Apostles) arranged as “welcoming
arms”, which together seat 16,000 people, is
capped by a heavily ribbed dome structure with
sky motif infill panels giving the illusion that one

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