8 Sep 2023

Chch's Cardboard cathedral may be sold to restore original

From Checkpoint, 5:37 pm on 8 September 2023

The Anglican church is considering whether to sell Christchurch's cardboard cathedral to plug a shortfall in the budget for restoring the original decimated in the earthquakes.

The church leadership will discuss the future of the cardboard building during meetings at the weekend.

It opened opposite Latimer square in 2013 as a temporary place of worship, but soon became popular with tourists too.

Meanwhile a 2017 estimate put the cost of restoring the actual Cathedral at just over $100 million, but that's since ballooned to north of $155 million.

Harcourts real estate agent, Mark O'Loughlin, speaks to Lisa Owen from Christchurch.