Converting Churches Into Homes

The market for churches converted into homes: Long popular in the U.K., these conversions are catching on in the U.S. Beth DeCarbo has details on Lunch Break. Photo: Bob O'Connor for The Wall Street Journal.
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[@willoooooooob9]

Too much chit chat.........show more of the results.........smh

[@aferretnamedsophie3335]

I know

[@flatnuts1946]

Our 1st home was a church that was built in about 1885, we purchased it in 1973 for 13K. We have owned 4 homes and the church was the best one of all of them. The house framing was rough sawed full 2x6 oak. Had to pre drill to put screws in the wall. The drill bit would smoke from the aged oak. The older churches are very well built.

[@prod.byloneravenue1118]

Curt Schmalz a lot more codes they have to follow

[@pierre-rose7783]

Make no mistake, this is something you do if you have a lot of money, if you want it to look amazing ! Don't forget how old buildings need all kinds of very expensive repairs and upgrades too !

[@snailche2045]

How does it compare with building a house from scratch? I want to know

[@jr-bw1lt]

im not religious but i would like to live in one of tese this is beautefull

[@ltcajh]

We're buying a little Texas country church building for $30k. I figure, with our own efforts added in, no more than $100,000, tops, to make it very nice.

[@AnkeredLighthouse]

Good luck! Take some before and after photos.

[@timswinson5693]

ltcajh please start a vlog

[@ltcajh]

Not a bad idea!

[@ltcajh]

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[@rudyevo]

How did it go?! Do you have pictures?!

[@buyerofsorts]

I would totally live in converted old church!

[@aarfeld]

I've noticed that the Conregational Church is in serious decline. Though many of their former churchs have been sold to other denominations.

[@FormulaWill]

Finally, municipalities will get some tax revenue from these buildings!!!

[@cestlamaude6465]

That stupid orange banner across the bottom blocked the full view. Ugh!

[@jameskreidler9443]

This is exactly where I wanna live here.

[@TheBeast1911]

Why don't they have fans that can blow the hot air from the ceiling down ?

[@putinontheritz6634]

I'd buy a church, obviously it would be good in my hands. With all the extra space I'd be able to host living for foriegn priests

[@Nerodz]

Do churches converted into homes maintain their tax exempt status?

[@011angelfire]

In most cases, no. The property has to be used for a tax-exempt purpose.

[@nancydunn4182]

Take sign off the bottom.

[@huntnwabbits8150]

To all the people saying this is blasphemy, would you rather the churches fall into disrepair and then be torn down? This way a family that loves the building moves in. God would not have a problem with that love.

[@timbo1989fl]

God's don't exist and churches are shuting down cause religion is dieing

[@jamessunday8915]

Are these churches God-made OR Man-made? Who OWNS the church properties? The CORRECT answer will get the Gullible SHEEP thinking!!!

[@Ssm19494]

@@jamessunday8915easy old guy… go take your meds

[@jamessunday8915]

@@Ssm19494 Are You among the SHEEP PREYS??? 😀😀😀😀

[@Icythewolf95]

Some of them would make really good music venues and clubs.

[@antoninacawley7949]

It's very sad to see a church turned into a home.

[@JohnHazenhousen]

Why?

[@antoninacawley7949]

@@JohnHazenhousen don't want religion to die.

[@JohnHazenhousen]

@@antoninacawley7949 I think it’s inevitable.

[@guineapiglady2841]

HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Why? No one needs silly buildings for worship.

[@guineapiglady2841]

@@antoninacawley7949 Religion can die but NOT the relationship with Christ!

[@rukus100821]

So what about housing taxes? cause i would think it would cost a fortune?

[@hansfranklin5070]

We're losing our religion!

[@mariieett010]

buy me this home and im never coming out the bell towee

[@drfred1203]

Nice putting the banner across 1/5th of the screen. Grrr…

[@andriyapradiptakarim5979]

My request for the concept of the infrastructure and the building in USA, UK, and the all of the world among the others : Maximalist Old School Minimalist Traditional Maximum Maximize Futuristic Minimum Minimize Standard Modest Classic Simple Future

[@andriyapradiptakarim5979]

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[@andriyapradiptakarim5979]

Design : Captivating Advanced Beautiful Amazing Gracious Advance Graceful Superior Elegant Exterior Perfect Interior Beauty Lovely Pretty Great Good Cool Nice Chic Top

[@andriyapradiptakarim5979]

The all of the goverments, organize, and the all of the officials in USA, UK, and the all of the world are should be able to make the complete overhaul, new regulation, new concept, new change, new system, new rule, and a big rule with a fast👍👌

[@andriyapradiptakarim5979]

Come On .. Let's get to start from now !

[@shallnotbeinfringedamerica1683]

I'm about to buy a church

[@lisajohnson6351]

Take the banner off the screen!

[@lisarice4402]

Are any of them being made into homeless shelters?

[@prod.byloneravenue1118]

Lisa Rice considering the bank owns them. No

[@glitterboxglitterbox1939]

Lisa Rice yes; huh? They should they really should make the old churches give it to homeless ppl! For free!

[@tunacan6098]

and watch it turn into a sh*thole?

[@ella-om4fq]

Where is the covertly insurance company

[@resilientfarmsanddesignstu1702]

And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves, And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves. - Matthew 21:12-13

[@Death-fw6co]

Not applicable, take that garbage elsewhere you can’t even comprehend your own book.

[@douglasshadell7225]

They are beautiful apartments but for me personally I don’t know if I would feel comfortable moving into God’s house...I feel like I would be doing something wrong...just me

[@ecclesiaxxi6210]

You are correct, it is completely wrong and this satanic organisation knows exactly what it is doing.

[@khunopie]

Is it Haunted?

[@staringanime]

💙💜

[@Ludifant]

There is such an obvious solution for heating a church or any other huge rooms, that I am not even going to tell you.. Do your homework.

[@poutinemuncher9404]

PLZ MY HOUSE WAS AN OLD CHURCH, IT WAS STILL A CHURCH WHEN TOWNS WERE CALLED COMMUNITIES 😀

[@ella-om4fq]

I found a home for my family. An I can't get a loan for my first time buyer.my compaction has been withheld..for so call attorney fees..now at 54 ... homeless..what Floyd co.Ky has done to is shameless...it has affected all aceptof my life......no one cares to the pain it has caused my family.....

[@guineapiglady2841]

Cool!

[@alanchris8370]

Why they are sell this churches ?

[@mansuraaktaraliza6859]

I like the house

[@charlessiegfriedlevy6973]

this use of churches built in neostyles and modernism style is wonderful

[@ominous450]

I wondering if this is a sin, converting a church into a private house

[@Tsuruta1]

ominous450 Look at Acts 17:24, and you will see why it's not.💒

[@andacarina2901]

I pray so much and I am so starving of that divine energy that I would move into a church. When I found out there were churches already sold for living it was heaven news for me. Depending on who will move there and what will do makes the difference between sin and bliss.

[@ecclesiaxxi6210]

It is blasphemy, big NO.

[@resilientfarmsanddesignstu1702]

Converting churches, the houses of God, into mansions for the rich; surely we live in the end times!

[@jamessunday8915]

Churches are houses of God? Are you serious? Are these churches God-made OR Man-made? Your answer is as good as ALL right thinking human beings!!!

[@jamessunday8915]

Did they buy these churches from God OR from mere human beings? Your own answer will OPEN your minds to a lot of TRUTHS hidden from you for Soooo long.

[@crimsonhawk4912]

I'd play black metal on the speakers

[@steveporter1012]

😢😢😢

[@emmucamilo5606]

we should increase church don't convert church into home u won't to build the house u can get many places 2 build house

[@mrwonderful2142]

my new house of sin >:]

[@wassha09]

No.

[@lindamartial6348]

wont live in a converted church ghost of the dead

[@bellabookitty9047]

Ha ha ha , i hear that 😂🤣

[@abbyalphonse499]

Ghost of the dead? It's a church, not a graveyard!

[@charliebrown5755]

That's just creepy.

[@timbo1989fl]

Always a pleasure to see religious places shutting down

[@patricksaxon3983]

This prove that religion is on a decline.

[@kristinav.767]

Blasphemy

[@baccarsalem6153]

blasphemy is when people believe that jesus was god when he said to them in john " the father is the only true god "

[@kristinav.767]

@@baccarsalem6153 I think it's more confusion, lack of education and ignorance than blasphemy. The fact that Churches are turning into nothing but buildings for human entertainment, is truly blasphemy. I understand that Jesus Christ is The Son of The Father and I find it sad that there is so much confusion created about Christianity, some people don't even want to hear about repentance, forgetting self, judgement, existence of Satan or demons, and similar subjects, because they think that God is only Love and that's all there is. But Jesus is important to us as Christians too. Because he came to tell us about The Father and he also showed us how we should strive to lead our lives.

[@susanbashynski1373]

For all of you who persecute those of us who believe in God, just stop. There is no reason for it. You aren't being persecuted for your disbelief. I'm not sure what you're most afraid of: the fact that there is a God and you fear you will die and you will meet him one day (newsflash - you will), or the fact that you'll be proven wrong in this life and look as foolish as your comments sound. Those of us who believe in God will not be swayed by your childlike behavior. May God have mercy on your souls.

[@PaMartin123]

Susan Bashynski irrelevant

[@wardy6224]

Look, idc what people believe in, its a free world and life is too short however you can’t demand respect when you yourself are being disrespectful..

[@guinpucan]

how sad. in the philippines our churches whatever congregations it would be, before pandemic of course, is exploding with church goers every church services.

[@USA50_]

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[@bamkablam]

I hated this newswoman. She wrecked the segment

[@RK1FX]

thats blasphemy

[@dropbeatnoztrad9356]

gotta love that comment (Y)

[@ltcajh]

Show me in the Bible- you can't.

[@Tsuruta1]

RazorFX "The God who made the world and *everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands." ref. Acts. 17: 24 NIV. This is also why there is no problem with churches renovated from other buildings. In my town are 2 churches, one was a grocery store, one was an auto dealership.

[@amazighennorthafrica6501]

lol

[@ecclesiaxxi6210]

This is so blasphemous, offensive and disgusting. Sick.

[@mariaweydert7986]

Why

[@ecclesiaxxi6210]

@@mariaweydert7986 You aren't asking because you actually want to know my views/beliefs and why this is blasphemous, offensive and disgusting. So spare me the anguish and waste of my time.

[@mariaweydert7986]

@@ecclesiaxxi6210 how do you know why I'm asking? I actually would like to know what your thoughts are, as well as others who believe it's blasphemous. I've actually wondered myself.

[@mariaweydert7986]

@@ecclesiaxxi6210 don't just jump to conclusions

[@ecclesiaxxi6210]

@@mariaweydert7986 Well, it's because a church is the house of God, that is the purpose of it and why it was built (those who funded it and built it, they did so to worship God). Especially Catholic churches as they had consecrated/sanctified ground, this means it's holy space. To then turn it into a "private space" where anyone can go and do anything e.g. non Christians living there (problem as it's a church, so conquest/colonialism of sorts, like a Muslim buying a Hindu temple and moving into it & vice versa), also todays society is degenerate so there is a high possibility there will be sex (including outside of marriage which is even more sinful being on church grounds), drugs, listening to demonic music, films, bringing in non Christian objects (from other religions) into the grounds which is demonic and allows demonic legal grounds. To disregard that it is a house of God is an affront, it is spitting in the face of Christians (both the Christians who built it and actual Christians today (so not lukewarm/cherrypicking ones i.e. most self proclaimed Christians)). For me it's blasphemy, incredibly offensive, disgusting, in the UK they've been selling and desecrating churches for decades (turning them into nightclubs in Scotland) and I walk past one, it makes me feel sick seeing it. Mocking God, mocking the house of God, built and made and used for worshipping our creator and Lord, to being used for people who are anti Christian (yet want the architecture and building produced by Christianity) to desecrate and mock. That's some reasons of why I dislike it. I hope you can understand why I (or others) do not like it and would want this stopped. Sorry if I jumped the boat and wrongly assumed your comment to be an attack, I've seen too many posts by people (here and on twitter) who use the word "why" not because they want to know why, but as a gotcha. Have a nice day.

[@user-gc5dz2zg7m]

The ruth of Christ is coming upon us. What a blasphemy!!!

[@IDONTLIKETHATSHIT]

What!!!???? What do you want the church building to just crumble!! No one wants the building obviously, so why not make it a home for a family? This isn't the dark ages anymore, step up to 2016 will ya!! People like you STOP progress!

[@user-gc5dz2zg7m]

Dear friend. Your soul is immortal. The value of one single soul is greater than any building. Don't fall so low. Chose between money and death and Christ and eternal life. A friend from orthodox Greece.

[@ltcajh]

Non-Biblical comment. Prove to me the Church is anything other than the people. If it's the building, then it's sacriledge to destroy an old "church".

[@abbyalphonse499]

@@user-gc5dz2zg7m I very much doubt this was an Orthodox place of worship, why would you care about heretical churches?