deconsecrated

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And then there’s her recommitment to gospel and God with “Amazing Grace,” a landmark that was reconsecrated a few years ago with the release of the long-buried documentary of the same title.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 13, 2021

His design incorporated the church’s few surviving elements, including the exterior walls, the northeast pillar of the main nave and the 15th-century life-size statue of the Virgin Mary that lent the reconsecrated church its name.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 11, 2021

Luckily, the local diocese determined that the church does not need to be reconsecrated.

From Salon • Aug. 26, 2014

In 1590 it became a mosque, then in 1912, when the city became Greek again rather than part of the Ottoman empire, it was reconsecrated as a church.

From The Guardian • Aug. 8, 2011

Of that legendary library, the most that survives today is a dank and forgotten cellar of the Sera- peum, the library annex, once a temple and later reconsecrated to knowledge.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan