Sanctuary

Christ Covenant Church bought Piedmont Place, a 94,000-square-foot Buckhead office building, for $16.9 million, planning to run it as a multi-tenant office at first and later add a 2,500-seat sanctuary.

Christ Covenant Church bought Piedmont Place, a 94,000-square-foot Buckhead office building, for $16.9 million, planning to run it as a multi-tenant office at first and later add a 2,500-seat sanctuary.

Rockport Baptist Church in Arnold, Missouri, bought the former St David’s Catholic Church on seven acres for $1.75 million after the parish merged, gaining a large sanctuary, gym and classrooms.

Sanctuary Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale is part of a plan for a 12-storey, 340-unit building with up to a third affordable homes, as developers seek out church land across South Florida, CBS News Miami reported.

Greenville’s Second Presbyterian Church, grown from 400 to more than 750 members, plans a $10 million downtown expansion funded by donations, parking income and a loan, ending with a 900-seat sanctuary.

A Raytown, Missouri, church is trying to raise $2 million to buy the Grandview campus of the scandal-hit International House of Prayer Kansas City, including a 1,400-seat sanctuary and a 28-acre children’s centre.

St Luke’s Episcopal Church in Altoona, Pennsylvania, sold its building to a local contractor and now rents back its sanctuary and food pantry space for $800 a month, with utilities included.

A Washington, DC, Pentecostal church partnered with developer Foulger-Pratt on a $72 million, 197-apartment building in the Navy Yard neighbourhood that includes a new 17,000-square-foot sanctuary on the ground floor.

Illinois Public Media looked at closed churches reborn as apartments and a chamber of commerce office in Springfield, a restaurant and brewery in Peoria, and a youth ministry centre in Jacksonville.

Charity Baptist Church sold its Crown Heights building, the former Fox Savoy Theater, for $575,000 in 2012 on a promise of ground-floor space in the new development. Records showed its sanctuary placed in the cellar instead.

Seventh-day Adventists in Cárdenas, Cuba, dedicated a new church with a 500-seat sanctuary, funded entirely by private donations through Maranatha Volunteers International, replacing a deteriorated garage-sized building after decades of prayer and waiting.

First Mennonite Church in Mountain Lake, Minnesota, which once drew 400 to 500 worshippers, sold its 1950s sanctuary to a Hispanic Pentecostal congregation and moved into a nursing home chapel as attendance fell to about 40.