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Vacant Niagara Falls Catholic Church Sold to Buddhist Temple
The Buffalo News ^
| 2/26/20
| Thomas J. Prohaska
Posted on 02/26/2020 6:26:24 PM PST by marshmallow
The former St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church in Niagara Falls has been sold for $165,000 to a Buffalo Buddhist temple.
The closed church at 5604 Lindbergh Ave. sold for $165,000 to Wat Buddhakunaram Buddhist Temple, according to papers filed this week in State Supreme Court.
A judge must sign off on the sale of church property, according to New York State law.
The sale contract was signed Sept. 18, according to the court filing, although the deed has not yet been filed.
St. Charles Borromeo Church, incorporated in 1944, closed after the Diocese of Buffalo consolidated numerous parishes in 2008.
The court filing by the diocese said the sale was complicated because the title search revealed the former St. Charles real estate has been partially owned for decades by Prince of Peace parish.
Prince of Peace merged with St. Leo parish in the Town of Niagara to form the new St. Vincent De Paul parish, whose headquarters are located at the Prince of Peace site on Cayuga Drive.
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To: marshmallow
The good news is that Buddhists don’t usually desecrate churches and ‘convert’ them, unlike Muslims. Buddhists generally respect the building’s symbols.
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posted on
02/26/2020 6:30:37 PM PST
by
Kriggerel
("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
To: marshmallow
This has been happening for decades under the normal scope of news.
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posted on
02/26/2020 6:32:36 PM PST
by
Grampa Dave
( Phil Haney did not kill himself. RIP, Phil!)
To: marshmallow
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posted on
02/26/2020 6:42:23 PM PST
by
Vaquero
( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: marshmallow
To: marshmallow
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posted on
02/26/2020 6:52:15 PM PST
by
Salvation
("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
To: Vaquero
To: who_would_fardels_bear
Stooges. Abbott and Costello. It was a vaudeville staple gag.
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posted on
02/26/2020 7:15:25 PM PST
by
Vaquero
( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: Kriggerel
I would rather see it as a Buddhist temple than a mosque
To: Vaquero
Slowly I turned
Get a hold on yourself!
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posted on
02/26/2020 7:51:18 PM PST
by
The_Media_never_lie
(Lincoln freed the slaves, and 160 years later Bernie Sanders is planning to enslave the free!)
To: Vaquero
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posted on
02/26/2020 7:51:51 PM PST
by
JohnnyP
(Thinking is hard work (I stole that from Rush).)
To: Vaquero
To: Vaquero
Step by step
Inch by inch
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posted on
02/26/2020 7:54:18 PM PST
by
MayflowerMadam
("Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength" - Corrie ten Boom)
To: marshmallow
A couple miles away from me.
This area has become a cesspool of drugs and violence,
labeled the most dangerous city in Western New York
I’m 2 miles from the Falls on the Niagara Gorge.
Moving within the month.
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posted on
02/26/2020 7:58:09 PM PST
by
The Mayor
(I am outraged at your outrage toward the outrage!)
To: marshmallow
The striking thing to me about this story is that a piece of real estate is selling for $165k. Is it a very small property and building?
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posted on
02/26/2020 8:07:40 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(MAGA - 16 more years! - KAG)
To: marshmallow
Good, not another mosque.
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posted on
02/26/2020 8:51:20 PM PST
by
Hoosier-Daddy
("Washington, DC. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious")
To: The Mayor
I’m 2 miles from the Falls on the Niagara Gorge. Moving within the month.I left the Falls in 1977, and it was a dump back then. I only go back to visit my mother.
I like your homepage.
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posted on
02/26/2020 9:25:06 PM PST
by
cayuga
(A gov't that can take your AR-15 can take anything else it wants.)
To: marshmallow
A closed Methodist church in my area was sold about five years ago and became a Buddhist temple.
The Buddhist temple has since closed and the building is up for sale again. Unfortunately while under Buddhist ownership most of the architectural features that would have made it a desirable church have been destroyed.
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posted on
02/27/2020 9:12:10 AM PST
by
Buckeye McFrog
(Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
To: TigersEye
The striking thing to me about this story is that a piece of real estate is selling for $165k. Is it a very small property and building?
Upstate New York is a very distressed real estate market. Largely due to Democrat tax policy. Annual property taxes on a $165K structure in that area are probably around $10K.
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posted on
02/27/2020 9:13:42 AM PST
by
Buckeye McFrog
(Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
To: Buckeye McFrog
Good grief! That sounds very distressed and taxes like that are insane.
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posted on
02/27/2020 6:45:49 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(MAGA - 16 more years! - KAG)
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