Restoration, undertaken by the Bishop Museum and completed in 1970, added two prayer towers, a taboo house, drum house, altar and god images.

From the top balcony of the prayer tower, whence the muezzin called the faithful to their devotions, he had a full view of both banks of the river.

The evangelist announced last month he would enter the gleaming, 200-foot prayer tower in the middle of the university campus today.

Overlooking that is the 30ft-high prayer tower, which looks not unlike a prison watchtower.

'Dude, if Pete wasn't here I don't know what I'd have done - you'd have seen me hanging from the prayer tower.'

The projection room now serves as a 24-hour "prayer tower," and crutches and canes from faith healings line a wall in the lobby.

The evangelist, who has been in a 200-foot prayer tower at Oral Roberts University, made the appeal on his son's television program "Richard Roberts Live."

The studios were located in the iconic prayer tower on the ORU campus.

The architect had to take that into consideration in the layout, as well as in the construction of the prayer tower.

In 2008, $10 million was set aside from Green family donations for long deferred maintenance on many campus buildings, along with the prayer tower.