Abandoned LDS Churches

[Applejack]

I live in the city and the neighbors said they would get mad if I put up an OTA antenna... some of them have dishes on their roofs so I guess they don't have a problem with those.

??????????? Don't you live in Texas? Have they no respect for property rights down there?

[Goatnapper'96]

The church I went to as a child was sold some time back... I have been told that the buyer lives in it:

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HaHa, it is an ugly house. I have seen some rural LDS Churches turn into good homes but the one there in Paul is not of their numbers.

[ByronMarchant]

LOL, while we disagree on a lot of things I have always considered you a full witt and not a half witt.

I am sure you have heard of the churches welfare system and humanitarian systeml. If not read up on them so you won't make such assinine statements in the future.

Show me the data!

[Katy Lied]

I tried finding it online and couldn't, but in the 90s, a new LDS chapel near Palm Desert was built, and the old one was sold to a hispanic congregation. The new one was nearby, in a nicer neighborhood, and I was told that the hispanic congregation got a bargain price. Classic white flight!

[byu71]

Show me the data!

Google it.

[Jeff Lebowski]

In the early 60's the LDS church in the city of Santaquin, UT abandoned their pioneer-era chapel (due to growth!) and build a big new church. They eventually sold the old chapel to the Assembly of God church, who used it for many years. Then the city bought it back from the church, restored it, and turned it into a library. Beautiful building, inside and out. Glad they saved it.

[Applejack]

More on the chapel that inspired this post (thank again, Bryon!):

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Some of the stained glass that still exists on the chapel. The bottom one shows the 4 books of scripture (PoGP!) that we believe in.

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The lovely fountain added by the Moonies.

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This shot shows some of the cool engravings on the church. Sunstones, anyone?

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The moonies have tried to remove all signs of mormons, but they don't know our scriptures very well!

[cougjunkie]

In the early 60's the LDS church in the city of Santaquin, UT abandoned their pioneer-era chapel (due to growth!) and build a big new church. They eventually sold the old chapel to the Assembly of God church, who used it for many years. Then the city bought it back from the church, restored it, and turned it into a library. Beautiful building, inside and out. Glad they saved it.

Typical white flight! Santaquin is full of colored people.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Typical white flight! Santaquin is full of colored people.

Si.

[Applejack]

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The frieze, designed by brigham Young's grandson, Mahonri, is beautiful. Mahonri also did the Eagle gate in Salt Lake and This Is The Place.

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One can imagine a healthy conversation in the bishop's office about chastity occurring in this room, or a cult-like ceremony involving a Korean Jesus


Edit: More for those interested: https://cdn.loc.gov/master/pnp/habsh...dc0586data.pdf

[Pelado]

A friend of my wife's family bought the old chapel in Shelley, ID decades ago. We visited them years ago and played basketball in the cold gym. Apparently it costs a lot to heat the whole building. Don't know if they are still there.

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[Northwestcoug]

Here's a building in Idaho Falls that the church abandoned to the Salvation Army. Built in the 30s, it was sold by the church in the 90s (no doubt in response to a declining neighborhood). Looking back, I remember tutoring kids in one of the upper rooms just a year or two after it sold.

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These images are from https://ldsarchitecture.wordpress.com/, which is a pretty cool website for this stuff.

I spent way too much time looking at that site. There are some pretty neat buildings out there.

[Joe Public]

In the early 60's the LDS church in the city of Santaquin, UT abandoned their pioneer-era chapel (due to growth!) and build a big new church. They eventually sold the old chapel to the Assembly of God church, who used it for many years. Then the city bought it back from the church, restored it, and turned it into a library. Beautiful building, inside and out. Glad they saved it.

They can probably hold hundreds of books in there!

[Katy Lied]

This Old House ran a series about a 1906 Arts & Crafts style Mormon Church in San Francisco converted into a home:

https://www.thisoldhouse.com/watch/san-francisco-house

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[Uncle Ted]

??????????? Don't you live in Texas? Have they no respect for property rights down there?

Yeah there are no regulations but I do have to live with my neighbors bitching about it.