A 99-year-old church for sale in Point Chevalier has a multi-million dollar CV. The Church of the Ascension in Point Chevalier, which closed for worship in July, was put on the market earlier this month. The 2004sqm Dignan St section has three buildings including the church, a vicarage and church hall. Continue reading
Posts Tagged ‘Declining church attendance’
Attendance at Anglican Cathedral services rises by 18%
Friday, September 30th, 2016
Latest figures show an 18% increase in the numbers attending services in England’s Anglican Cathedrals between 2005 and 2015. On average 36,700 people,adults and children, attended cathedral services each week in 2015. Almost all of the increase in attendance over the past decade has been in increasing midweek attendance. But in 2015 attendance at Sunday Read more
Two more churches become upmarket residences
Tuesday, April 19th, 2016
Declining church attendance has given rise to a steady stream of churches being converted into upmarket residences Two more former churches have recently gone on the market. In Wellington the former St James Presbyterian Church in Newtown’s Adelaide Rd, has been completely rebuilt to accommodate five new apartments. Architect Simon Novak of Novak + Middleton Read more
Decline in Catholic population “quite alarming”
Friday, March 14th, 2014
The decline in the Catholic population shown by the 2013 census “is quite alarming”, according to history professor Peter Lineham of Massey University. In the 2006 national census, 508,761 people identified themselves as Catholic. By the time of the 2013 census that had fallen to 492,111. The census results show that the number of self-identified Read more
Loss of historic churches an unfolding tragedy
Tuesday, March 11th, 2014
Stewart Harvey, Chairman of the New Zealand Historic Cemeteries Conservation Trust, has described the fate of historic churches as a quietly unfolding New Zealand tragedy. Harvey expressed his view in an article, Saving Grace that appeared in the Autumn 2012 edition of Heritage, In the article Matt Philp described the fate of a number of Read more