Sacred Spaces In the News
Ebenezer United Methodist Church, Capitol Hill
Nonprofit Tries to Keep Churches from Becoming Condos
Fox Business
Washington, D.C., nonprofit Sacred Spaces Conservancy, formed in 2017 to combat a single startling statistic: the city has lost more than 25 percent of its places of worship since 2008…
Sacred Spaces Conservancy Executive Director, Liz Laird
Room to Share
World Magazine
When flames engulfed Notre Dame cathedral last April, people around the world mourned the destruction of France’s national symbol…
The Historic Lincoln Temple, Shaw
A Shaw Thing
The Economist
A historic church in the capital closes its doors to worshippers…
Does a Religious Community Need Its Own Building to Flourish?
The Washington Post
For decades, changes in American religious behavior and the District’s demographics spurred a slow emptying of city houses of worship…
Preserving The District’s Disappearing ‘Sacred Spaces’
Hill Rag
By 1982, the 250 African-American congregants of Faith Baptist Church recognized that the costs of maintaining the church at Ninth St. and North Carolina Ave. SE were becoming increasingly unsustainable…
Spiritual Spaces: Do Congregations Need Their Own Buildings?
The Kojo Nnamdi Show
Why some local religious communities are choosing to meet outside of traditional synagogues, mosques and churches…
Saving Churches on Capitol Hill
The World and Everything In It
In the Washington, D.C., real estate market, you might see “for sale” signs in unexpected places. Several church buildings are up for sale…