WORLDKINGS - Worldkings News - MV Logos Hope: World’s largest floating book store-cum-library

28-09-2020

(Worldkings.org) The Logos Hope, the world’s largest floating book store-cum-library is a ship owned by the German shipping company GBA Ships e.V. which operates its fleet for specific charity purposes.

MV Logos Hope is a ship operated by the German Christian charitable organization GBA Ships e.V (English: Good Books for All) featuring a mobile bookstore, as a part of international Christian outreach movement. 

Built in 1973 as the ferry MV Gustav Vasa for service between Malmö (Sweden) and Travemünde (Germany), she later operated as the MV Norröna providing a ferry service to the Faroe Islands.

As the fourth ship operated by the organisation, The MV Logos Hope follows in the line of MV Logos, the wrecked hulk of which now sits on a rock shelf on the Chilean coast, MV Logos II which was retired in the fall of 2008 and which Logos Hope was designed to replace.

The Logos Hope, the world’s largest floating book store-cum-library is a ship owned by the German shipping company GBA Ships e.V. which operates its fleet for specific charity purposes. Logos Hope ship has over 6000 books in its collection which can be purchased by people.

These 6000 books include books for recreational reading, professional references, personality and individual development and books talking about different global cultures.

Along with being a book library and store, the Logos Hope also contributes by helping to build houses and donating essential provisions to the many under-privileged countries where it makes a port call. The MV Logos ship has in its seven years of existence visited around 158 countries and has till now benefited over 40 million people.

According to en.wikipedia

 


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