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A COOL CHURCH

Visitors stand in a church built of snow and ice in Mitterfirmiansreut, southern Germany, on Wednesday evening.

The 65-foot-long church was bathed in blue light as it opened. Villagers built the first snow church in 1911 to protest the fact they did not have a church there.

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