SPOTLIGHT: Sacred Places/Civic Spaces

Sacred Places/Civic Spaces is a partnership between the Community Design Collaborative and Partners for Sacred Places to re-envision underutilized, purpose-built religious properties as community hubs. The project seeks to strengthen relationships between sacred places, community organizations, and service providers with a mutual interest in co-location.

Goals of Sacred Places/Civic Spaces:

• Promote understanding of the realities faced by a diversity of faith communities stewarding historic properties in neighborhoods and offer alternative options.

• Challenge the notion that sale and subsequent adaptive reuse or demolition is the only option facing declining congregations.

• Provide innovative models and prototypes in which religious buildings house a multitude of co-existing uses for community benefit.

• Timeframe to Complete Project: 1 - 5 Years

• Cost Range: varies

• Key Words: community, public spaces, Intermediate, Public Spaces & Gathering Places, community engagement, education, community design

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Community Design Collaborative strengthens neighborhoods through design. Click the button below to learn more.

Partners for Sacred Places is the only nonsectarian, nonprofit organization dedicated to sound stewardship and active community use of older sacred places across America. Click on the button below to learn more.