Steeple-themed nightclub and Swampies also-ran Spire is now up and running in Downtown’s converted First Church of Christ, Scientist at 1720 Main St., following last winter’s covert purchase by the group running Clé bar. The remodeled Mod space officially opened last weekend and is currently advertising upcoming events on a marquee along Jefferson St., including a Playboy-sponsored pre-Super Bowl party (scheduled against the Taylor Swift concert at temporary 3-story nightclub Club Nomadic, among other goings-on).  Other upcoming Spire events include this weekend’s Waka Flocka Flame concert and the VS vs Fredericks Lingerie Contest scheduled for next Wednesday.
Some promotional photos from the club provide a few views of the former altar (above, with a view of the original for comparison), as well as the added balconies and new seating arrangement possibilities in the main sanctuary:
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- Gallery [Spire Houston]
- Previously on Swamplot: The ‘Where Are They Now?’ Award: The 2016 Official Ballot; Mod Christian Science Church Now Being Converted To Steeple-Themed Nightclub Downtown; TABC Permit in the Works for the Brutalist Christian Science Church on Main St.; A Closeup of That Downtown Sci-Fi Christian Science Church the AIA Tried to Buy; Golden Spired 1960s Mod Church Awaits Sale Closure and Fate Downtown
Images: Spire Houston (first and last); Swamplot inbox (second and third)
How appropriate. We will see more of this in years to come, 10 churches a day close in the US due to lack of attendance and all that property is becoming taxable and once again productive for the community, not just a tax drain.
According to Research from Duke University and University College London ‘Religion is dying out in America’: Just 18% of people 60 and younger attend church and less than 50% believe in God.
Time to sit back and watch some prime real estate to come on the market.
Alright. From worshipers to sinners !!! Party on….
Some churches don’t die, they just reinvent themselves. For example, elder care…… But there’s nothing new about this. Until the Reformation, the Church was the only source of welfare for the poor, aged, neglected and so forth. Today, in these far more progressive times, churches die and the land becomes taxable, the taxes pass through many hands before, much diminished, support finally reaches the poor, aged, neglected and so forth.