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What would you do with an empty church?
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RE: What would you do with an empty church?
October 27, 2016 at 6:13 pm
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RE: What would you do with an empty church?
October 27, 2016 at 6:15 pm
(October 27, 2016 at 4:45 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Turn it into a recording studio or jazz club ... Or both, if it's one of those huge Catholic affairs.

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RE: What would you do with an empty church?
October 27, 2016 at 7:18 pm
(October 27, 2016 at 6:15 pm)Aegon Wrote:
(October 27, 2016 at 4:45 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Turn it into a recording studio or jazz club ... Or both, if it's one of those huge Catholic affairs.

Like Uncle Bob in "That Thing You Do"?

I don't know, I've never seen that. Is it a TV show, or a movie?

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RE: What would you do with an empty church?
October 27, 2016 at 8:51 pm
Topless bar.
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RE: What would you do with an empty church?
October 27, 2016 at 9:53 pm
it occurs to me that the odds of a given empty/abandoned church building having been affiliated with the One True Faith are miniscule.

In fact, the odds would zero. Members of the One True Faith would have been richly rewarded and blessed and would have had no reason to leave.
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RE: What would you do with an empty church?
October 27, 2016 at 10:27 pm (This post was last modified: October 27, 2016 at 10:28 pm by Rev. Rye.)
(October 27, 2016 at 4:45 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Turn it into a recording studio or jazz club ... Or both, if it's one of those huge Catholic affairs.

YES! Doing something like that to my old church has been one of my dreams for years. At least since I watched The Muppet Movie where apparently the Electric Mayhem were in the process of doing it to an old church. "It'll be so fine and laid back and mellow and profitable" indeed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNWx_RNMB10

Learning that Aqualung was apparently recorded in a newly-repurposed Church made the desire all the more strong. And visiting the Ryman (which started off life as a church and ended up as one of the premiere music venues in Music City) in 2014 only made the desire stronger. Hopefully, at some point, they'd collapse under their own weight and I'd have enough money to turn it into a club.

And given how many albums have been recorded at the Village Vanguard, a club with a capacity of 123 people, I see no reason recording studio and jazz club need to be so discreet a set of categories. Shit, perhaps turn the Holiest of Holies into a small recording studio as a small wing like the Ryman had when I visited (and would you believe that my old Church actually stored some of their PA gear there?).
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RE: What would you do with an empty church?
October 27, 2016 at 10:36 pm
I used to live right near here: http://www.mrsmalls.com/NewPHP/home.php

I saw VNV Nation there once.
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RE: What would you do with an empty church?
October 27, 2016 at 10:45 pm
"What would you do with an empty church? "

This question is actually an answer to another question that has haunted me for years; "What shal I do with the drunken sailor?"

Now I have a home for him and have answered both questions.

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RE: What would you do with an empty church?
October 27, 2016 at 10:51 pm
I'd replace any pews with chairs and rent out the sanctuary as practice/performance space for bands. Probably could get a coffee shop/bookstore happening in there too.
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RE: What would you do with an empty church?
October 27, 2016 at 11:01 pm
Might be fun to convert the altar into a bar and have topless dancers on top of it.

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