The Cathedral and Abbey Church of Saint Alban
St Albans Cathedral is now a founding member of a new global network aimed at greening religious pilgrimages. The Green Pilgrimage Network was launched on 1 November in Assisi in Italy. It is to be coordinated by the Alliance of Religions and Conservation (ARC), in association with WWF.
The idea of making a religious journey to a holy place is something shared across different religions, and the vision of this network is to make places of pilgrimage as environmentally sustainable as possible. As the oldest place of Christian pilgrimage in Great Britain, St Albans Cathedral was invited to be part of this network in partnership with the City and District Council. The Cathedral is also one of Britain’s oldest recycled buildings – since Roman bricks are still visible in the Norman tower and throughout the building.
Our Green Pilgrimage Network video can be viewed by clicking below.
Whether you are making a spiritual pilgrimage to Britain’s first Christian martyr; or your objective is to discover more about the history, art, and architecture of this medieval Abbey; or you are attending a concert, lecture, graduation; or you are coming to worship in the Cathedral, we invite you to share in the objectives of the Green Pilgrimage Network in greening our places of worship and the journeys we make to them, and to seek to tread more lightly on this planet.
We invite you to join us in a climate change of understanding, including buildings, land, waste disposal, retail outlets, marketing and transport.
St Albans Cathedral has launched a new Green Fund so that all who travel to the Cathedral are invited to calculate the carbon footprint of their journey or journeys. Having made this calculation, we then invite you to make an online donation to the Green Fund or to an overseas carbon offsetting project.
Please note that our own fund is not an accredited carbon offsetting project, but will be used to fund new projects at the Cathedral to green your place of worship and pilgrimage.
Consider your travel options and choose wisely.
Calculate your Carbon Emissions
Make a Paypal donation here, being careful to indicate ‘Green Fund’
However, remember that your payment is not a substitute for producing fewer emissions in the first place.