{"id":31553,"date":"2019-07-08T13:43:27","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T11:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ferrovial.com\/blog\/?p=31553"},"modified":"2025-12-12T00:39:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T23:39:50","slug":"rehabilitated-churches-in-cultural-and-social-spaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ferrovial.com\/blog\/en\/2019\/07\/rehabilitated-churches-in-cultural-and-social-spaces\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are Deconsecrated Churches Used For?"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\r\n{\r\n  \"@context\": \"https:\/\/schema.org\",\r\n  \"@type\": \"FAQPage\",\r\n  \"mainEntity\": [{\r\n    \"@type\": \"Question\",\r\n    \"name\": \"What is a deconsecrated church?\",\r\n    \"acceptedAnswer\": {\r\n      \"@type\": \"Answer\",\r\n      \"text\": \"Places of worship can have exceptionally long lives. 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As a 13th century Gothic church, this building was abandoned by the faith that brought it to life in 1294, and until 2006, it was in a state of advanced deterioration.\r\nBut if we\u2019re looking for a library instead of a bookshop, we\u2019ll find that, too. Do\u00f1ana Palace, the old Spanish hunting lodge that has been turned into a technology center, houses a scientific library belonging to the CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient\u00edficas de Espa\u00f1a, the Spanish National Research Council) in a chapel that had fallen out of use for at least two decades. Though it is small.\r\n\r\nShould we be looking for something bigger, we can travel to Vught (the Netherlands), where St. Peter\u2019s Church now houses not only an enormous library and restaurant but also a museum. 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The church was missing elements like frescoes that may have been damaged, which meant that it was an ideal space halfway between ancient and modern art.\r\n\r\nSomething similar happened in Quebec (Canada) in 2003. The Church of the Holy Spirit had been closed for years and fell into disrepair, and Quebec\u2019s Circus School was looking for a new location for their acrobatic practices. In an agreement with the city council, they managed to take over maintenance of the space and carry out their activities there.\"\r\n    }\r\n  },{\r\n    \"@type\": \"Question\",\r\n    \"name\": \"Have anybody ever imagine a supercomputer in a deconsecrated church?\",\r\n    \"acceptedAnswer\": {\r\n      \"@type\": \"Answer\",\r\n      \"text\": \"Early in 2004, a supercomputer was installed in a chapel on the North Campus of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Spain). It was the first big supercomputer in Spain, and, at the time, it was the most powerful in all of Europe. If it means anything to the reader, it had 9 TiB of RAM memory.\r\nThe servers generate heat, and that is why they must be cooled (in some ways, just like the columns for protection), but they also cause little vibrations. Because of this last reason, a complex metal structure is responsible for distributing them without harming the past, showing that both ages can coexist in ways that allow them to also contribute to knowledge and culture.\"\r\n    }\r\n  }]\r\n}\r\n<\/script><\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2>What is a deconsecrated church?<\/h2>\r\n<p>Places of worship can have exceptionally long lives. The Hagia Sophia, the Orthodox cathedral (360 A.C.) that is today a mosque (1261-present) and was previously a Catholic cathedral (1204-1261), is a good example of such a building with a thousand-year lifespan.<\/p>\r\n<p>But every once in a while, it just so happens that an infrastructure ceases to be related to the faith from which it emerged. What happens to the building then? It\u2019s deconsecrated. We\u2019ll look at a few curious cases where these structures have become other sorts of spaces, often <strong>new cultural spaces<\/strong>. From libraries and skate parks to the most advanced supercomputers in the world, like the Marenostrum 4 in Spain.<\/p>\r\n<h2>Are there deconsecrated churches\u00a0 transformed into bookshops and libraries?<\/h2>\r\n<p>Selexyz Dominicanen, in Maastricht, Holland, is one of the most interesting, unusual bookshops in the world. As a 13th century Gothic church, this building was abandoned by the faith that brought it to life in 1294, and until 2006, it was in a state of advanced deterioration.<\/p>\r\n<p>The proposal made by architects Merkx and Girod was very interesting for several reasons: <strong>they managed to save the building in a good state of conservation by converting it into a bookshop<\/strong>, and they also added useful space by building ingenious, asymmetric catwalks. These allow us to enjoy the temple\u2019s frescoes and architecture, which is symmetrical.<\/p>\r\n<div id=\"attachment_31558\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31558\" class=\"wp-image-31558\" src=\"https:\/\/static.ferrovial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/13143228\/selexyz-dominicanen-fotografia-techo-1-1024x685.jpg\" alt=\"Selexyz Dominicanen, in Maastricht, the Netherlands. From gothic deconsecrated church to bookstore\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.ferrovial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/13143228\/selexyz-dominicanen-fotografia-techo-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/static.ferrovial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/13143228\/selexyz-dominicanen-fotografia-techo-1-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/static.ferrovial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/13143228\/selexyz-dominicanen-fotografia-techo-1-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/static.ferrovial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/13143228\/selexyz-dominicanen-fotografia-techo-1-800x535.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-31558\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kevingessner\/3417309591\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kevin Gessner<\/a><\/p><\/div>\r\n<p>But if we\u2019re looking for a library instead of a bookshop, we\u2019ll find that, too. Do\u00f1ana Palace, the old Spanish hunting lodge that has been turned into a technology center, <a href=\"http:\/\/esmateria.com\/2013\/01\/15\/una-iglesia-convertida-en-biblioteca-cientifica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">houses a scientific library<\/a> belonging to the CSIC (<em>Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient\u00edficas de Espa\u00f1a<\/em>, the Spanish National Research Council) in a chapel that had fallen out of use for at least two decades. Though it is small.<\/p>\r\n<p>Should we be looking for something bigger, we can travel to Vught (the Netherlands), where St. Peter\u2019s Church now houses not only <strong>an enormous library and restaurant<\/strong> but also a museum. The header for this article welcomes us to the library space, which we can also see below, this time the transept.<\/p>\r\n<div id=\"attachment_31560\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31560\" class=\"wp-image-31560\" src=\"https:\/\/static.ferrovial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/13143227\/biblioteca-de-pretrus-holanda-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"The deconsecrated church of San Pedro transformed into a library, restaurant and museum\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.ferrovial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/13143227\/biblioteca-de-pretrus-holanda-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/static.ferrovial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/13143227\/biblioteca-de-pretrus-holanda-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/static.ferrovial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/13143227\/biblioteca-de-pretrus-holanda-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/static.ferrovial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/13143227\/biblioteca-de-pretrus-holanda-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/static.ferrovial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/13143227\/biblioteca-de-pretrus-holanda-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/static.ferrovial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/13143227\/biblioteca-de-pretrus-holanda-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-31560\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.holland.com\/global\/tourism.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Holland.com<\/a><\/p><\/div>\r\n<h2>How a deconsecrated church is used as a musical temple dedicated to dance?<\/h2>\r\n<p>Many religions still have music and dance at their core. We\u2019re used to the pipe organ playing, choruses, the pace of prayer\u2026 But <strong>it may be a shock for us to go into a church once night has fallen to order a drink and listen to music<\/strong>, anything from classical fare to electronica.<\/p>\r\n<p>That is exactly the case at the old Church of St. Joseph in Milan, a coffee shop\/nightclub called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilgattopardocafe.it\/\">Il Gattopardo<\/a>. In 2001, it started to be used as a coffee shop\/nightclub. If this seems interesting, it\u2019s because of how the old temples were acoustically designed so that the sound travels easily. This lets the music \u2013 regardless of genre \u2013 reach every corner of the room. But St. Joseph\u2019s isn\u2019t the only example, just one of the most notable.<\/p>\r\n<p>We found another in England, where a lovely abandoned church in Leeds had been used for years as an illegal rave under the name <em>Halo<\/em>. A businessman invested thousands of pounds in renovating the structure, and now it is a live music club (below) where <strong>historical heritage is cared for and gets a second life.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Proud proud and still on cloud 9 after <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackSavoretti?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JackSavoretti<\/a> got a number 1 album on Friday with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/singingtostrangers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#singingtostrangers<\/a> I\u2019m so excited I can\u2019t even sleep!! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/congratulationsJack?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#congratulationsJack<\/a> Here is a small clip from the beautiful album launch <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Church_Leeds?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Church_Leeds<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Crash_Records?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Crash_Records<\/a> last Sunday <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/oneweekago?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#oneweekago<\/a> \u2764\ufe0f?? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/g1fntFkG4r\">pic.twitter.com\/g1fntFkG4r<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Marisa (@marisa_deborah) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marisa_deborah\/status\/1109748324586930181?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 24, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\r\n<p>It is estimated that, in England alone, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.es\/sociedad\/20140910\/abci-iglesias-desacralizadas-discotecas-201409092057.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">at least 50,000 buildings<\/a> that were formerly consecrated have gone through a similar transformation, everything from offices to pubs and spaces for recitals and discos, and approximately 20 churches are closed every year in that country. And it\u2019s not alone. There were 200 abandoned churches in Denmark in 2015, and in Germany, at least 515 were closed from 2005 to 2015. If we want to conserve these historic spaces, we need to give them new life.<\/p>\r\n<h2 id=\"tw-target-text\" class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\" data-placeholder=\"Traducci\u00f3n\"><span class=\"Y2IQFc\" lang=\"en\">Can a deconsecrated church be used as a Skate Park or a circus school?<\/span><\/h2>\r\n<p>And maintaining enormous historical heritage is costly, especially when the inside houses furnishings (sculptures, paintings, frescoes). Music is a way to restore these spaces, as are dance and less conventional disciplines, like circus arts and skating. In Llanera (Asturias, Spain), <strong>a new mecca for skaters<\/strong> opened in 2015.<\/p>\r\n<div id=\"attachment_31562\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31562\" class=\"wp-image-31562\" src=\"https:\/\/static.ferrovial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/13143224\/kaos-temple-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Deconsecrated Church in Asturias transformed into park for skaters with works and reform of the artist Okuda\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.ferrovial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/13143224\/kaos-temple-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/static.ferrovial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/13143224\/kaos-temple-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/static.ferrovial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/13143224\/kaos-temple-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/static.ferrovial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/13143224\/kaos-temple-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/static.ferrovial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/13143224\/kaos-temple-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-31562\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image of <a href=\"http:\/\/inkandmovement.com\/project\/kaos-temple-by-okuda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Inkandmovement.com<\/a><\/p><\/div>\r\n<p>Asturias has 200 days of rain a year, which means that skateboarding aficionados don\u2019t have a place to practice. In 2014, world-renowned artist Okuda San Miguel kickstarted crowdfunding to convert this space, which was left abandoned to the elements, into a new place of worship. The church was missing elements like frescoes that may have been damaged, which meant that it was <strong>an ideal space halfway between ancient and modern art.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p>Something similar happened in Quebec (Canada) in 2003. The Church of the Holy Spirit had been closed for years and fell into disrepair, and Quebec\u2019s Circus School was looking for a new location for their acrobatic practices. In an agreement with the city council, they managed to take over maintenance of the space and carry out their activities there.<\/p>\r\n<div id=\"attachment_31556\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31556\" class=\"wp-image-31556\" src=\"https:\/\/static.ferrovial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/13143229\/quebec-escuela-de-circo-altillo-1.jpg\" alt=\"Quebec, a deconsecrated church transformed into a circus school. Loft for circus acrobatics\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.ferrovial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/13143229\/quebec-escuela-de-circo-altillo-1.jpg 1020w, https:\/\/static.ferrovial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/13143229\/quebec-escuela-de-circo-altillo-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/static.ferrovial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/13143229\/quebec-escuela-de-circo-altillo-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/static.ferrovial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/13143229\/quebec-escuela-de-circo-altillo-1-800x450.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-31556\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecoledecirque.com\/photos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00c9cole de Cirque<\/a><\/p><\/div>\r\n<p>Now, Quebec is the only city in the world with <strong>a circus school inside a former place of worship<\/strong>. We\u2019re sharing a very unusual photo of the church\u2019s loft. There, a useful space that wasn\u2019t there before was designed, thanks to the work of renovation architects. In the back, we can see the main stage and how the original architectonic elements are still present.<\/p>\r\n<p>Many of these projects require not only a team of architects who are knowledgeable about the hidden spaces in places of worship. They also need historians for consultation on interventions that may be done, or institutional support to make these transformations look good, which impacts a site of cultural heritage that belongs to everyone.<\/p>\r\n<h2>Has anyone ever imagined a supercomputer in a deconsecrated church?<\/h2>\r\n<p>Early in 2004, a supercomputer was installed in a chapel on the North Campus of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Spain). It was the first big supercomputer in Spain, and, at the time, it was the most powerful in all of Europe. If it means anything to the reader, it had 9 TiB of RAM memory.<\/p>\r\n<div id=\"attachment_31564\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31564\" class=\"wp-image-31564\" src=\"https:\/\/static.ferrovial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/13143220\/marenostrum-superordenador-1-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Marenostrum supercomputer, deconsecratd church converted into a supercomputer\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.ferrovial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/13143220\/marenostrum-superordenador-1-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/static.ferrovial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/13143220\/marenostrum-superordenador-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/static.ferrovial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/13143220\/marenostrum-superordenador-1-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/static.ferrovial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/13143220\/marenostrum-superordenador-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/static.ferrovial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/13143220\/marenostrum-superordenador-1-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/static.ferrovial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/13143220\/marenostrum-superordenador-1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-31564\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Imagen de <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bsc.es\/marenostrum\/marenostrum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BSC-CNS<\/a><\/p><\/div>\r\n<p>In the image above, we can see how interesting <strong>the contrast between the arches and crystal and the servers inside<\/strong> is. The past and future wrapped in each other like a set of Russian dolls. This division of volume (in the image, we can see how there are facilities under the racks that reach the chapel\u2019s floor) is necessary for cooling and conserving the building.<\/p>\r\n<p>The servers generate heat, and that is why they must be cooled (in some ways, just like the columns for protection), but they also cause little vibrations. Because of this last reason, a complex metal structure is responsible for distributing them without harming the past, showing that <strong>both ages can coexist <\/strong>in ways that allow them to also contribute to knowledge and culture.<\/p><p><em>An article by Marcos Mart\u00ednez<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is a deconsecrated church? Places of worship can have exceptionally long lives. The Hagia Sophia, the Orthodox cathedral (360 A.C.) that is today a mosque (1261-present) and was previously a Catholic cathedral (1204-1261), is a good example of such a building with a thousand-year lifespan. 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