deconsecrated

In DTLA, the restaurant and event space known as Redbird + Vibiana was previously St. Vibiana’s Cathedral, deconsecrated by the Catholic Church after suffering damages in the 1994 Northridge earthquake.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

The deconsecrated Suffolk church is currently the location of bell-ringing training for a band of campanologists getting ready to ring for the King's coronation.

From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2023

Dress got deconsecrated and inclusivity became a necessity.

From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2022

The parish and school were closed by the archdiocese of New York in 2015 before the church was deconsecrated two years later.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 11, 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 George Worley