Church Conversions

As more churches in Britain fall silent, their empty edifices are finding new life as nightclubs, bagpipe training centers, theaters, pubs, and museums.

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May 7, 2003, 4:00 AM PDT

By Chris Steins @planetizen

"Ensuring the survival of out-of-use churches also often requires a clever balancing act - between historical use and current practicality. With dwindling congregations increasingly forcing old churches across Britain to close, new uses, such as schools for circus training or bagpipe playing, may prove surprising keys to the salvation of some. But these new lives do not come cheap."

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FULL STORY: Church converts

Thursday, May 1, 2003 in The Christian Science Monitor

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