There sure are a lot of churches in this neighborhood...

[conuly]

By "church" I mean "christian places of worship". I'm not counting the nearby synagogue or mosque in my reckoning.

On my block: A Catholic church.
Up the hill: A Lutheran church, and the former Mormon temple
Up the hill and down the street: An Episcopal church
Down the hill: At least two storefront churches within two blocks.
Down the hill and to the right: A Baptist church, LOUD preaching.
Down that hill: CHURCHMANIA. Loud singing from the Pentecostals, altar-boys going from church to church, churces on top of stores, churches inside old movie theaters and warehouses, churches inside other churches, churches that don't announce their prescence in any way but are STILL THERE.

If you live in my neighborhood, and are even marginally religious, you better go to church, because with all that hinting, I think God'll take it personally if you don't.


I always knew there were a lot, but this is like some sorta explosion. I think they've multiplied in the past few years since I went down that way by the old Woolworth's.

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[xiggaroo.livejournal.com]

run!!!! the incest will catch yoooooooooou!

[joeymew.livejournal.com]

My neighborhood is synagogue central. There are three on one street. It's madness, I tell you! But they ahve fun carnivals ^-^ Which I missed this weekend.

[dandelion.livejournal.com]

Not too many here- the 800 year old Protestant one up the hill, the boring Methodist one up the hill from that, the Salvation Army down the hill from that, and then the weird one they use as a polling station down the hill then up the hill from us.

[auryanne.livejournal.com]

I've noticed that where we currently live, too. One one corner, there are three churches. Just down the street, two more. And a couple more a little ways down.

I don't really know why they are concentrated in such a small area; with synagogues there is actually a reason for having a lot of them, the more Orthodox Jews are not permitted to drive on the Sabbath, which means they have to walk to synagogue.

[black-rat.livejournal.com]

I believe my area has the same consentration of churches (note that you probably live in a much more urban area, given that it's somewhere near NYC)

Up the street: an episcopal church
Then take a sharp right: A methosdist church
Up the road, through town, over the bridge, then take a left: A babtist church

Then up on the hill and for a mile is St Patricks, oldest Catholic church in New England *eyeroll*

[conuly]

1. Concentration
2. No, I'm *in* the city. NYC has five boros.
3. That's a lot, but I still think we trump you.

[lakidaa.livejournal.com]

CHURCHMANIA! ...I want to yell it out loud. It sounds like something you'd hear in a monster-truck derby commercial. 'CHURCHMANIA! with the Pope'nator and the Christian Experience! Tickets still only $5! RARR!'

[xiggaroo.livejournal.com]

run!!!! the incest will catch yoooooooooou!

[joeymew.livejournal.com]

My neighborhood is synagogue central. There are three on one street. It's madness, I tell you! But they ahve fun carnivals ^-^ Which I missed this weekend.

[dandelion.livejournal.com]

Not too many here- the 800 year old Protestant one up the hill, the boring Methodist one up the hill from that, the Salvation Army down the hill from that, and then the weird one they use as a polling station down the hill then up the hill from us.

[auryanne.livejournal.com]

I've noticed that where we currently live, too. One one corner, there are three churches. Just down the street, two more. And a couple more a little ways down.

I don't really know why they are concentrated in such a small area; with synagogues there is actually a reason for having a lot of them, the more Orthodox Jews are not permitted to drive on the Sabbath, which means they have to walk to synagogue.

[black-rat.livejournal.com]

I believe my area has the same consentration of churches (note that you probably live in a much more urban area, given that it's somewhere near NYC)

Up the street: an episcopal church
Then take a sharp right: A methosdist church
Up the road, through town, over the bridge, then take a left: A babtist church

Then up on the hill and for a mile is St Patricks, oldest Catholic church in New England *eyeroll*

[conuly]

1. Concentration
2. No, I'm *in* the city. NYC has five boros.
3. That's a lot, but I still think we trump you.

[lakidaa.livejournal.com]

CHURCHMANIA! ...I want to yell it out loud. It sounds like something you'd hear in a monster-truck derby commercial. 'CHURCHMANIA! with the Pope'nator and the Christian Experience! Tickets still only $5! RARR!'