All Saints is a church that delights in drawing the circle wide – so wide that the parish hall became home to local musicians, the Techno Champions and the Subterraneans Collective. The latter group subtitled itself “The Sinking Ship”, inspired, no doubt, by the spiritual ambience wafting from the church sanctuary. When parts of the roof started to fall into the nave, the building was declared unsafe even for musicians; it was closed and sold to make way for a 12 story condominium:
The Synod of the Diocese of Niagara and the Hamilton nonprofit corporation Options for Homes want to demolish All Saints Anglican Church on Queen Street South at King Street West to construct a 12-storey, affordable housing apartment. The main level would be used for worship and ministry by congregation members.
The town’s view is that the main level will house “commercial units”:
Options for Homes is proposing to build a 12 storey condominium on the site of the former All Saints Church property, located at 15 Queen Street South at the corner of King Street West and Queen Street South. The proposal is for 120 residential units with commercial units on the ground floor.
Here is the existing church building:
And here is a rendering of what the condominiums will look like:
Anyone interested in picking up a cheap baptistery should go here before they sell out.
“The main level would be used for worship and ministry by congregation members.”
And I have some swamp land in Florida for sale…
Wouldn’t that be a case of turning the House of God into a den of thieves, on the ground floor, anyway?
Pietro
The “den of thieves” is on James Street North. That prejorative is an insult to honest businessmen.
Drawing the circle so wide that it pushed the walls out and the roof fell in.
Trouble with liberals is that they always run out of other peoples’ money in the end.
Oh I can hear the excuses already. “The local demographics have changed”, and “our immigrants (oops, “new Canadians”) are not of the Anglican tradition”, etc. Perhaps. But please do not try to tell me that people no longer look to Jesus Christ! Especially when I see this happening in Brampton, ON (a.k.a. “brown-town”).
http://dcnonl.com/article/id39795
http://www.michaelandsttekla.org/new-church-project
http://www.infoukes.com/culture/architecture/st_elias/
http://www.stjeromeparish.ca/index.asp
I could go on, but I think you get the point. Those who have remained Faithful to the Holy Word of God, as God has given it to us (and edited or politically correctified) are the Churches that are growing. Those who have drifted are in decline. It is that simple!