Experts project an estimated 100,000 churches in the US will close or be repurposed over the next decade.
Many churches will be unable to escape this “tsunami” of closings — a grim trajectory one pastor described as, “Every year the pews are getting emptier and the collection plates getting lighter.”
I wanna do like the Scandinavians and turn them into clubs
Depends on the church. A crappy building, no. A cool stone cathedral in an urban centre, oh yes.
Like a phoenix.
Straight up gave it the Tony Hawk level treatment
I hope that building’s history involved priests or pastors feuding with kids on skateboards.
There’s one in Pittsburgh that has been turned into a brewery, it’s awesome.
We have a couple things like that in LA
They also burn them for the black metal and whatnot.
I’m writing a book and there’s a gay/lesbian bar in it that’s an old church. It’s called The Empty Pew. Wish I could make the fiction reality cause that’d be so dope.