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deconsecrate

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  1. remove the consecration from a person or an object

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  • Publican John Keating is redeveloping the deconsecrated St Mary's Church on Mary Street in Dublin 1, which is due to open as a bar and restaurant at the end of the summer.
  • Visiting the abbey church in the Harz mountain town of Quedlinburg, he notes that it was deconsecrated in the 1930s by Heinrich Himmler and turned into a shrine to the SS. Teutonic Temptations
  • In 1880, at a time when enthusiasm for industrial invention was at its height, the museum was reorganized and the deconsecrated church nave converted into a magnificent space for exhibiting machines.
  • a construction hard hat and a raincoat to hurriedly deconsecrate a historic Anglican chapel, which had suffered irreparable damage. FOXNews.com
  • At sunset, we climbed one deconsecrated pagoda to look over a landscape empty but for myriad other pagodas. Times, Sunday Times
  • ‘It is a disgrace to see the Church where Wolfe Tone was baptised and where the famous preacher John Wesley gave sermons being deconsecrated and turned into a pub,’ Mr Cassidy said.
  • In countries outside India, temples have often been fashioned from converted premises, from schools, deconsecrated churches, homes, even factories.
  • I was a fan of this musical when it played in a deconsecrated church basement in the West End in 2002.
  • Curator Jan Hoet set the ninth edition of the Sonsbeek public art exhibition in the original park, a deconsecrated church and a shopping mall.
  • ‘At the moment they can just be deconsecrated at the behest of a bishop and the people who paid for these churches have no say,’ Mr Cassidy said.
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