deconsecrated
Example Sentences
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As the population of the village fell, it was deconsecrated, so Mr Churches and his wife Jenny decided to buy the building.
From BBC ● May 27, 2025
Anchoring Little Village is the Shepherd, a 110-year-old Romanesque-style deconsecrated church that the couple bought and repurposed with the help of the Brooklyn architects Peterson Rich Office.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2024
Terry McKeown, the project manager with Sailortown Regeneration, said people were very upset when the church was deconsecrated and the pulpit was removed.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2022
In that time, 30 churches have been deconsecrated for secular use in Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island, leaving 172 Catholic churches in those boroughs.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 25, 2021
It stood on the ground where the old Southwark Town Hall was afterwards built, itself a perpetuation of the secular uses to which the deconsecrated church was put before it was destroyed.
From Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See by Worley, George
