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
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
The artworks were rediscovered by a Zimbabwean who recognized the name Cyrene on the boxes when the church was being deconsecrated, according to a press release by organizers of the exhibition in Harare.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 10, 2022
Vibiana’s — no “saint,” deconsecrated and sans stained glass — is now a happening party space.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 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.
