Church on the Move: Basilica Style Church to Be Moved 900 Miles to Georgia

[Beau_Ouiville]

"Sharon Wilbur clings to the rosary she carried as a child as she looks through old family photographs of weddings, baptisms and first communions. The three generations of memories all took place in the same church, St. Gerard’s Catholic Church, in Buffalo, N.Y. But like so many children of the rustbelt, Wilbur left those memories behind many years ago when the south promised better opportunities.

For Wilbur, Sunday mass is now in suburban Atlanta, at Mary Our Queen, in a nondescript building that looks more like an office park than a Catholic basilica. She never dreamed she’d see her family’s church again until her pastor announced one Sunday what seemed like a crazy idea: He wanted to have traditional place of worship by moving an existing church, piece by piece, to the open lot next door."

abcnews.go.com/WN/church-move-buffalo-nybasilica-moved-900-miles-georgia/story?id=12081499

 

[hxcCatholic413]

That’s awesome! I wish they did that in my home diocese as well…the oldest Churches were the ones that closed

 

[Cracker_Mom]

Thank you! That was a very cool article.
I liked the comment about some churches looking like “Pizza Huts.” Sad but true.

 

[Beau_Ouiville]

I’m not convinced of the reasonableness of spending money this way. My diocese gives away closed churches to other congregations.

 

[Redbaron998]

Thats amazing! I live in Georgia I am gonna check this out when it gets here. Most of our churchs are quite ugly

 

[hxcCatholic413]

I’m not convinced of the reasonableness of spending money this way. My diocese gives away closed churches to other congregations.

Something about giving away a beautiful Catholic Church to other denominations doesn’t seem right…well only if the Churches look like pizza huts I guess