OK, this time we're going for "mostest". The winner will be whoever collects the most points for recycled houses of worship. To qualify, the structure must have been designed or initially used as a church, synagogue, mosque, chapel, cathedral, temple or shrine. (Catholic schools or colleges, church affiliated colleges, Pakistani madrassas don't qualify, but if a college chapel was converted to, say, a food court or performance venue that building would.)
Voluntary turnover is rewarded, coercion is penalized.
Here's the scoring system, followed by some examples:
5 points Church building voluntarily de-sanctified and used for a secular purpose. Example, the church in the Alice's restaurant song that is now a restaurant. The synagogue in St. Louis which is now the library for the history museum.
4 points The building stays religious, but changes religion. Some examples: the Hagia Sofia in Istanbul -- went from Byzantine Christian cathedral to Muslim mosque. Any of a number of inner city Black churches that took over the building of a synagogue whose congregation had moved to the suburbs.
3 points The building changes denominations, but remains in the same religious stream. An example would be if a Protestant church changes from Church of Christ to Unitarian, or if a mosque goes from Sunni to Shia.
2 points The building is abandoned and is derelict or in ruins.
Subtract 1 point for coercion. So, when Henry VIII forced an English cathedral to change from Catholic to Church of England Protestant, that's 2 points -- 3 for changing flavors of Christianity minus one for doing it at the point of a sword. Churches turned into warehouses by the Communists or synagogues shut down by Nazis or fascists: 5 - 1 = 4 points.
Time frame: till next Monday, so we have the weekend for riding!
Lets see those photos and point counts!