Already happening .. homes, offices, performing arts, shops

The church I was taken to when I was young , got turned into an apartment complex . I now actually live in the same neighborhood now . My dad's parents lived "directly" across from it .

Bullshit Museums.

Concert venues! Especially the older churches.

Afraid that is a bit of wishful thinking that isn't going to happen in our lifetimes. Once the bank 'repossesses' them, it would be up to the bank...

Whoever purchases the land would decide. It sure would be something to see churches change into places of business, community outreach, private homes, shelters, schools... the sky is the limit.

Bars. Strip clubs. Haunted attractions. Casinos.

I've always had a fantasy about converting abandoned churches into schools and libraries. I'm thinking libraries for the fancy stone ones and schools for the more ordinary house-looking ones.

charities

Pretty sure based on what I know about churches I'm pretty sure they'd start selling condos and discriminate against their constituents.

Most of the smaller ones have pretty good acoustics, so event venues comes to mind; as does shelters and soup kitchens.

Homeless shelters, Rehabilitation center

Convert it to housing and useful things like community centers.

Make them libraries or educational institutions.

Homeless shelters. food kitchens, free healthcare clinics,... All funded by church donations.

Concert venues! Especially the older churches.

Churches were designed for high social meetings and events, anything to that effect will do well.

They make also high end apartments or homes. Not so great for the homeless or poor because of often high ceilings, exposed Windows . Poor insulation and high cost of energy. Many churches already are for sale cheap. I can build a new building and home many times cheaper and healthier.

A woman in a small nearby village bought a church that was no longer in use. She has musicians come play for donations. They also sell their CDs. If we arrive early, we can wander through the cemetery in back that was included with the church. Another two churches here in town have converted to apartments. Unfortunately, I can't see anybody paying for an old church, even one in bankruptcy, and not living in it or making money on it somehow.

This is a little off subject, yet I'll add this anyway. There is a show that aired on the History Channel some years back about "Dixie", ie. the southeastern states. One fact that stuck with me is there are more churches per capita in Dixie than in any other region of the US! I thought of converting the old churches to theaters for plays.

Community space for education (not just primary learning, but life skills and hobbies/crafting/making), crèches, homeless/food centers, libraries, meeting space, lectures, events.

Burn them to the ground. Never leave 1 cancer cell around. Build something new

I am a boomer. When the boomers were school age, schools were built. When the baby bust followed, school districts sold schools. The elementary school my former husband went to was bought by a church. Real estate never lies around, it will be bought and re purposed. There is no lack of demand for space. They might lose some money but I don't see that as being a concern.

I've always wanted to live in a small old church. I love the architecture. And I would remake the sign to say "HOUSE OF IRONY. A private residence.

They could be easily used as insane asylums for those still hanging on to the disease while religion is dying out. Then, we could turn a few into hate museums where they cover the atrocious activities of the past and with religion being dead, people would likely be a little more rational and we could figure out a way to make sure there are no longer any homeless people.

There were a few large churches up for sale in Chicago a few years ago. I thought they would make fantastic homeless shelters. Especially in Winter.