Churches Converted to Condominiums

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Repurposed under heaven
Stripped of their religious trappings, area churches live on as condominiums

By Kathy McCabe
Globe Staff / July 27, 2008

When developer Tony Pace had the chance to turn the 100-year-old former Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Ipswich into a luxury condo, he sought the blessing of a parish priest.

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Guilt about turning a house of worship into a high-end home isn't limited to crib Catholics.

Karnig Ostayan asked his Armenian pastor to bless the former St. Theresa of the Child Jesus Church in Watertown, before turning the church and rectory into 11 upscale condos.

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Many a neighborhood church has gone condo. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston shuttered 65 parishes since instituting a sweeping parish consolidation in 2004. At least 30 properties have since been sold, many to developers eager to turn an old church into trendy housing, even in a declining real estate market.

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[thereismore]

1. We should convert most of the churches into low income housing. nt

[AndyTiedye]

2. All the Churches They Had to Sell Because they Harbored Pedophiles in Their Clergy

[Warpy]

3. It's a step up from turning them into mansions

which is what happened to a lot of deconsecrated churches in the 80s and 90s.

Funniest art studios I ever saw were in an old church in Mass. As sleazy as the artists were, it was probably the most spirituality that building had ever seen.