id love one as a house

Homeless shelters!

performing arts centers, museums and homeless shelters. Great acoustics, historical significance and lots of warm dry floor space.

Lecture halls; schools

How about converting them in shelters or apartments for the homeless? Then they would serve a useful purpose.

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This church in Dayton, Ohio was converted to a climbing center.

Brothels. Bars. Gaming. No seriously, schools, convert them to apartments for low income. Shelters for battered women/kids. Course if religion died out might there be less violence?

Homeless shelters would be a good start

Don't reuse them there tainted burn them down. Actually that is the correct way to destroy something spiritual or holy/sacred. And if not I would turn them into business or meeting halls, dance halls, or they can be used as auditoriums, homeless shelter, private atheist schools, science labs ooooooooohhhhhh a Dojo you can fit a pretty nice mat in most churches. just some ideas i could go on for ever. But I would want to burn one down.

I was reared Catholic and there are several Catholic churches around this rural area. Attendance is way down. One church is no longer used. Another two have scaled back services significantly. The church continues to hoard the property, tax free. I think it's a long, long time before we see these buildings and plots sold off.

24 hr. hotdogs and pancakes stop.

I'm completely with the homeless shelter idea previously stated, but if that wasn't viable for some crazy reason, I'd want them to be dance halls and music venues, I like the idea of loads of 4 piece bands playing rock and roll, with people doing the twist and jiving all day long, I'd never get bored of that.

I'd turn most into shelters and community centers for poor and less fortunate people. When there are more churches than homeless shelters, it's a truly sad state of affairs. Something that benefits everyone, don't care what it is.

We wouldn't. Realtors would. What we need to figure out is how we will repurpose the voice of the church. Or better stated.. uncorrupt it.

Music venues, art studios, Homeless shelters, community centers,

Interesting. The very first thing I thought of was for homeless shelters, before I read any comments.

The really architecturally beautiful ones could be used as restaurants or converted into affordable housing. The ones in strip malls could be used as bars, or brothels, or something else that's more useful.

There are never enough shelters for women with kids.

Youth centers, art galleries and theateres

Having both done, and attended numerous concerts in various church buildings - I'd say they make dandy concert halls. Especially the old ones with cathedral ceilings !

Or meeting houses, or dance halls !

I also knew a couple that bought a small old church, and made it their home. They put their bedroom up on the alter. Brilliant !

Shelters for women and children... Youth activity centers...

Have to make a lot more bars would have lots of aimless people with nothing to do.

My old church shares itself with AA, CHOW, they run a soup kitchen, certain theatre groups use it, yoga classes. The church also owns houses on its property that it rents out really low. I’d like to see them used like that, with no religion.

Homeless shelters, soup kitchens and youth centers come to my mind.

Same as now. Put them to all kinds of uses. The disgustingly opulent ones could be theaters for everything from science conferences to sports.