The controversial National Cathedral project, once envisioned as a grand structure to serve multiple purposes and enhance Ghana's tourism sector, but now abandoned with little more than a large excavation site, despite $58 million already committed to it in funding - has been featured in one of America's leading newspapers, The New York Times.
The New York Times feature on the National Cathedral, which pointedly refers to it as an "expensive hole," chronicles the project's journey; from its conception by former President and the high expectations it carried, to the widespread criticisms it attracted and its current abandoned state.
Read the full article of The New York Times May 3, 2025, report on the National Cathedral below: Ghana Wanted a Cathedral.
It Got an 'Expensive Hole' Instead The nation had grand plans for a national cathedral designed by a celebrity architect.
