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BER - Berlin Brandenburg Airport

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15 July 2011

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Oh, that was great. Mmm! The sunshine! And the glorious heat! I’ve just had a wonderful holiday in Greece. It was marvellous just being able to stretch out all my four ant arms in the sun and do absolutely nothing else. Fantastic!

But that’s all over and I’m back home again now and life is very much back to normal on the construction site. And already we’re looking ahead, although I must say that work basically got off to a very quiet start yesterday.

That was because we had representatives of the two great churches visiting, which is something we don’t experience every day. The occasion? The signing of an agreement on the financing and use of the chapel and the quiet room at the terminal of the new BER Airport.

It’s like this, you see: an airport is a place of mobility. Passengers depart, others arrive. Everyone has a destination he or she is heading for. But in the midst of all this mobility, it is sometimes very soothing to take a few minutes’ break for quiet contemplation.

The new airport now has two places dedicated to this very purpose: a chapel and a quiet room. These are places designed especially for people from different cultural backgrounds and religions but who have one thing in common: the desire for a moment’s peace – before emerging once more into their busy lives.