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2 stories match “churches”

1. Culture · Music

   The Choir That Sings Only in Empty Churches

   Every month, eighteen singers travel to a deconsecrated building and record its echo before it becomes flats, a climbing gym or nothing.

   Funmi Adeyemi · Sep 24, 2026 · 7 min read

2. Ideas · Essay

   A Brief History of Complaining About Noise

   …had been rescheduled onto someone else. The archive’s middle centuries are full of bells. Churches rang for services, for deaths, for fires, for the hours, and for reasons of their own, and from the 1700s onward…

   Mika Sato · Sep 3, 2026 · 7 min read