U.K. monument to document answered prayer

The United Kingdom will soon be home to The Eternal Wall of Answered Prayer, a monument designed to document and recognize answered Christian prayers, according to the project’s website. Architects modeled the structure after the Möbius strip, an infinity loop shaped like a twisted ribbon with no beginning or end. The wall will be constructed with one million white bricks, with each brick representing a prayer answered by Jesus Christ.

Organizers asked Christians across the world to submit their answered prayers, which will be displayed alongside the answered prayers of historic figures like Winston Churchill and Queen Elizabeth II. The Eternal Wall aims to chronicle both miraculous and everyday prayers answered by Christ for future generations, according to the project’s website. The monument will reach just over 15 stories, surpassing the height of the famous Christ the Redeemer monument in Rio de Janeiro.

The monument will also host an exhibit sharing what Christians believe about Jesus and how He answers prayers, along with a bookshop, a cafe, and a 24/7 prayer room. The project has been in development since 2019 and is scheduled to open to the public in 2027. Engineers and architects will finish testing the monument’s design details in March before construction begins on the structure, which the group describes as unprecedented.

How will the wall share the detailed stories behind each prayer with just brick? The location of each brick on the monument will be logged on the Eternal Wall’s app. Users can then use the app to scan specific bricks to read the answered prayer represented, according to the project’s webpage.

So can anyone get his or her prayer displayed on an international monument? Organizers plan to review each prayer story before adding it to the wall to protect against false or abusive submissions. The wall currently has about 42,000 stories of answered prayer, according to reporting by The Christian Post. Organizers continue pushing for international submissions and specifically hope to receive 200,000 stories from Christians in America.