Everything is temporary, even old nice looking things, especially if they are neglected and ill-maintained. If it can be preserved great, if not, life goes on. The church organization should take responsibility for it and fix it.
This article
https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/prayer-f...apse-1.6901488
has the congregation state: “Our main hope is that someone with a lot more money than we have will come and fix the building to the tune of $7.2 million,” she said. Like, what? It also states that regardless of whether it’s fixed the congregation is moving. So spend public dollars now and forever ongoing to have a building sit there just for posterity? It’s old and nice looking but it’s definitely not completely unique. A private org like a historical society or the church themselves should be the ones to fund that, not the taxpayer.
Another article posted today in the Free Press
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/br...han-a-building
states that the structural deficiency was made known to them in 1989, and yet nothing was done, no money was set aside by either the congregation or the church at large to deal with the problem. They had 25 years to come up with a solution.
I’d like to see it repaired and preserved privately, not publicly, in this specific circumstance. There’s plenty of other churches laying around that have been properly maintained and attended. The idea that every single one should be saved and made stand for another 1000 years for the sake of it is absurd to me.