Telling the Easter story

Shoppers in Templars Square Shopping Centre, Cowley, this Easter were able to take a break from their secular jobs and engage with the spiritual side of life, thanks to churches and schools in the area.

An exhibition of 14 large paintings telling the story of Holy Week and Easter adorned the square for one week, in a huge community initiative.

Congregations and pupils in Cowley, Rosehill, Littlemore and Blackbird Leys created the exhibition, which was opened with a special service in Templars Square on 1 April.

The Revd Margreet Armistead told the DOOR: ‘Because the service was held in the square with the exhibition around us, it immediately began to create interest from passers by.  It has been a wonderful, true community effort and will have brought something of the Easter story to everyone who can see the paintings as they go about their business.’