On its final day, St. Anna's is almost full again. A choir is singing and the small organ is supporting them. But this is the last mass in the small Catholic church in Gildehaus, a district of Bad Bentheim near the German-Dutch border. In future, the building will no longer be a place of worship.
Germany's empty churches repurposed as congregations shrink
Axel Rowohlt | Christoph StrackThe number of practicing Christians in Germany is falling. The result is surplus churches. What happens to these empty houses of worship?
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