From Prayer to Party: Europe's Empty Churches Now Host Drinking and Dancing.

Churches, convents, and chapels across Europe are increasingly being repurposed as faith and church attendance have shriveled over the past half-century. In Flanders, Belgium, which has some of the greatest cathedrals on the continent, every one of the 300 towns has about six churches, and often not enough faithful to fill a single one. Many of these once-sacred structures are being repurposed for anything from clothes shops and climbing walls to nightclubs, but some are being handed over to other Christian communities.