Episcopal cathedral sold Unnamed buyer to pay $1.275M for 38-year-old landmark (ECUSA)

kalamazoogazette ^ | April 30, 2007 | Tom Haroldson

[PAR35]

The Cathedral of Christ the King in Portage has been sold, members of the Episcopal Diocese of Western Michigan were told Sunday.

But who has purchased the church for $1.275 million and what will be done with the familiar landmark building and its prime property remain unknown.

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The cathedral was built in 1969 for $2 million. The diocese began thinking about a sale in 2004 because of tight finances and a dwindling church maintenance fund.

[PAR35]

The world's ugliest Cathedral has been sold. There were some earlier threads about it being on the market, but I don't recall seeing where a contract had been signed.

[PAR35]

Possibility of a sale discussed here:

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1777036/posts

[proud_2_B_texasgal]

The world's ugliest Cathedral

It's not the prettiest, is it?

[wideawake]

Yikes. That makes the Catholic Cathedral in LA look gorgeous by comparison.

What is that outbuilding pictured?

An industrial baptistery?

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[AlexW]

YAK...Who would by such a piece of garbage? The Zambodians?
It is even too ugly to be a factory or a power plant.

[AnAmericanMother]

I think they forgot to put in the plumbing and it's a Necessary House.

[PAR35]

Take out the bells, put on a roof, and you have a minaret.

[PAR35]

I saw speculation at one point that the site would be a good one for a hotel.

[r9etb]

Holy crap, but that's an ugly pile of bricks.

It'd be a great fire station, though -- you could dry a lot of hoses in those towers.

[Unam Sanctam]

I think it would make a pretty cool power plant.

[livius]

That was my first thought, too. The Saudis are always out buying up buildings in small US cities for (at present unneeded) mosques, and this one seems ready-made...

[gridlock]

I thought you were joking when you said the World’s Ugliest Cathedral... But looking at that picture, all I can say is, “Yup!”

[FormerLib]

I was about to ask who could lose three-quarters of a million on a long term real estate investment (barring Florida swampland or a Hawaiian volcano) until I saw that picture you posted.

Yeah, building something that damned ugly will kill your property values, sho’nuff.

[proud_2_B_texasgal]

It’s just a weird lookin’ building, isn’t it?.. LOL.

[JustMytwocents70]

The inside is just as Fugly.
This is a Work that “Father” Vosko would be proud of.

[FormerLib]

It’s just a weird lookin’ building, isn’t it?.. LOL.

I guess that's about the most charitable thing that could be said of it, actually.

[beelzepug]

“...a Work that “Father” Vosko would be proud of.”

Or perhaps one der Fuehrer would be proud of (needs more smoke stacks).

[dangus]

I think the Los Angeles (nominally) Catholic Cathedral is uglier. Although the architectural theme of this cathedral is abhorrent, at least it has one. compare:

The Taj Mahony just looks like a misplaced factory.

[proud_2_B_texasgal]

Ohhhhhhhhh, or a weird-themed Vegas hotel .. hmmmmmmmm.