Taylor Swift songs were played on Sunday in a 600-year-old church in southern Germany— Some 1,200 people attended the unexpectedly emotional gathering,according to DW.
A 600-year-old church in southern Germany may not be the place one would expect to hear Taylor Swift songs, but that is what happened Sunday. Some 1,200 people attended the unexpectedly emotional gathering.
At the Church of the Holy Spirit in Heidelberg, Germany, Tine Weichmann and her band provide musical accompaniment to prayers for the sick while Pastor Vincenzo Petracca conducted his congregation in prayer.
Pastor Vincenzo Petracca says Swift’s music speaks to the doubt and inner-conflict
Heidelberg’s famous Church of the Holy Spirit, a 600-year-old edifice in the town’s historic city center, was the scene of an unusual religious service on Sunday, where some 1,200 congregants came together to pray and contemplate (and enjoy) a performance of US pop star Taylor Swift’s songs as part of a special liturgy.
Staged under the name, “Anti-Hero — Taylor Swift Church Service,” organizers at the Protestant church said the event was conceived to attract younger people, as well as to focus on the profound religious convictions expressed in many of Swift’s songs.
