Another Two Historic Churches Explode Into Flames...
by Tyler Durden
Friday, Aug 28, 2026 - 02:25 PM
Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News,
Two more historic churches are gone. Burned to the ground like hundreds more before them.
In downtown Grand Rapids, fire tore through a 133-year-old building owned by LaGrave Avenue Christian Reformed Church late Wednesday night. While in Pennington, Alabama, the Ebenezer Baptist Church - a congregation founded in 1850 - was reduced to a total loss in a late-night blaze days earlier.
The official language surrounding the causes is already familiar: under investigation, unknown. The buildings are not coming back.
The Grand Rapids fire started around 10:55 p.m. Wednesday night, in the former Seventh-day Adventist building near Oakes Street and Sheldon Avenue - a masonry structure the city archives date to about 1894, originally All Souls Universalist Church.
Grand Rapids Professional Firefighters Local 366 said Rescue Company 2 arrived to "a large church with heavy smoke and fire showing from the basement windows." Crews pushed an interior attack with hoselines in the basement and on the main floor. The fire was already in the walls and void spaces.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/another-two-historic-churches-explode-flames
