"We're keeping the past, but moving into the future" Missy Fraser is talking about one reuse project — St. Margaret Mary (closed 2019) — but this could easily be a motto for all community-based church reuse 1/🧵 @CBCOttawa @CassandraY_L @syedsoharwardy cbc.ca/news/canada/ot…
In @CBCOttawa, @CassandraY_L describes the importance the building's new owners placed on acting with respect for the local community's many connections to the century-old former church, "reaching out... to gather ideas for renewing the property" 2/🧵 cbc.ca/news/canada/ot…
As @CassandraY_L details of the new owners' plans for the former church building: in addition to a mosque, it "will be used for a multi-faith community centre" with plans to provide space for a seniors' group, a school, and arts groups, among others 3/🧵 cbc.ca/news/canada/ot…
Yanez-Leyton quotes former congregant Fraser on how happy she is that the former church building can "continue to be a place of service to others... Community spaces, [we] can't recreate them when we lose them. And they're quite the treasure." 💎 End /🧵 cbc.ca/news/canada/ot…