[NYer]

INTERIOR VIEW

This 25,000-square-foot former eighties nightclub (and, before that, a church) was converted into a shopping emporium in May 2010. The 20th Street landmark’s lancet windows, labyrinthine layout, and soaring chapel are the same as they ever were, but the sex-and-drugs-fueled bacchanal is long gone. Where makeout booths and cocaine corners once stood, now you’ll find limited-edition sneakers, handmade belts, MarieBelle chocolates, Hunter boots, tubes of Sue Devitt lip gloss, scented soaps from Caswell-Massey, and Grimaldi’s pizza.

[NYer]

Who needs ISIS to blow up their churches when we can destroy them through our secularized lifestyle. This is a painful example.

[vladimir998]

What a pity.

[reed13k]

I actually went there when it was a club in ‘89 as a newly minted Ensign showing around some German Midshipmen on a visit before heading to Surface Warfare School.

It was ok - too crowded and the drinks were ridiculously priced. I made sure the Germans were set for their return, spent some time looking at the architecture (stain glass was outstanding), and called it a night. I may still have a card stashed somewhere in my old photo albums...

[Grateful2God]

Is this the “abomination of desolation” spoken of in the Bible? Sure seems like it to me... :’ (

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I know of two former Honky Tonks over the line in Oklahoma that are now churches.

At least they aren’t mosques.