How do you turn a building designed for worship into a home designed for a family of 10? With lots of built-in expertise, an eye for discount building materials and a truckload of drywall.

Angus Fredenburg and Esther Han knew as soon as they drove by the yellow-painted wooden clapboard church in bucolic ...

The iconic Sagrada Familia basilica — the unfinished masterpiece of architect Antoni Gaudí — officially became the world’s tallest church on Thursday, after a section of its central tower was lifted ...

Never before or later in Polish architecture did the wealth of forms and details take on such a spectacular scale as in the Baroque era, when temples and palaces were designed with exceptional panache ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — More than 500 people flocked to Sacred Heart R.C. Church on Saturday to celebrate a solemn reopening of ...

Catholic Church leaders cannot demolish the 104-year-old Holy Cross Church on the city’s near-east side, the Indianapolis Historic Preservation Commission decided Wednesday. After nearly two hours of ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Crews have now completed key restoration pieces within many of the Salt Lake Temple's sacred rooms as renovations to Temple Square continue. Ceiling and wall finishes were "carefully ...

An historic church decorated by an architect often dubbed the father of modern interior design is set to reopen after receiving a £130,000 grant. St Bartholomew's Church in Sutton Waldron also has ...

Now 90, the Estonian composer has spent a lifetime crafting music of profound beauty. By Ian Thomson Arvo Pärt, the pre-eminent religious composer of our time, was born in 1935 in Estonia, before its ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Cherry Health is operating a Neighborhood Wellness Center in partnership with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services at the Renaissance Church of God in Christ, 1001 ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Kent County residents now have a Neighborhood Wellness Center, thanks to a partnership between Cherry Health and the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS). The ...

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