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The third phase will feature a replica of Noah’s Ark and the rainbow. According to measurements, it will be 440 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 42 feet high. For comparison’s sake, a CFL football field, including end zones, is about 450 feet by 195 feet wide.

The fourth phase will install displays on three floors within the Ark. The first floor will feature a children’s interactive playground, the second floor will feature of display of animals on the Ark and the third floor will feature technology to allow people to walk through Jesus’s life.

The park would be non-profit and free to enter, according to L’Hoir. The project cost is estimated to be $1.2 million.

L’Hoir said that workers would be brought from China to build the park.

“You imagine how many people go to the Vatican, the Wailing Walls in Israel,” said L’Hoir. “You build something like this … this is going to be one of the biggest tourist attractions in Canada. This is sort of his legacy that he wants to, I guess, further Christianity in the world.”

Online Christian media have shown pictures of a similar park Wenqing apparently built in China.

According to L’Hoir, the land available in Saskatchewan would allow him to more accurately build to scale as set out in the Bible, should building actually commence.

According to L’Hoir, there are potential issues about parking, the Chinese workers’ visas, and others that need to be addressed. The park still does not have a formal name, as well, L’Hoir said.

Sunset Cemetery could benefit from the park.

“The theme park will increase the awareness about Sunset Cemetery and possibly make it a destination where hundreds of religious followers would come to be buried,” stated information about the project provided to the Moose Jaw Times-Herald from Sunset Cemetery.

“The foot print of the Cultural Theme Park will create a unique setting which will only increase our local interest to the cemetery. This will allow for more different interment options than before that are included into the design of the cultural theme park.”