God clearly kept trying to demolish this thing and the villagers kept rebuilding it as a place of worship.

This 500-Year-Old Serbian Oak Was Struck by Lightning Repeatedly, Then Became a Chapel

In the village of Čibukovac near Kraljevo, Serbia, a pedunculate oak believed to be over 500 years old — the oldest in the country, standing more than 30 metres with a trunk roughly 2.5 metres in diameter — has been hollowed out into a working chapel. Villager Mihailo Erotijević, with help from Father Radojko and others, carved the interior and coated it with wax, filling small niches with icons of the Holy Trinity, the Theotokos, St. George, St. Basil of Ostrog, the Crucifixion and St. Paraskeva. Villagers still gather there for major feast days, including the Holy Trinity Slava. Locals note the oak was repeatedly struck by lightning before it became a chapel.

Source: This 500-Year-Old Serbian Oak Was Struck by Lightning Repeatedly, Then Became a Chapel — Atlas Obscura

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