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A crew from Haselden Construction remove forms from the freshly poured foundation at Light of the World church in Littleton on April 4. (Seth A. McConnell, YourHub)

JEFFERSON COUNTY The construction of a new sanctuary at Light of the World Catholic Church should take about 11 months altogether, but it's really 35 years in the making.

The church, 10316 W. Bowles Ave. in the Littleton area, has been open since 1979, but it never had a permanent sanctuary with pews and kneelers both common in the Catholic faith. Instead parishioners have been seated in removable chairs and kneeling either on the floor or a mat.

"Building the church provides us with greater opportunity to do other things," the Very Rev. Michael Pavlakovich said. Pavlakovich has been the head pastor for the past eight years.

Construction continues on Light of the World, near the intersection of West Bowles Avenue and South Kipling Parkway, which is building a permanent sanctuary next to its current facility, where parishioners have been worshiping for the last 35 years. (Seth A. McConnell, YourHub)

Construction on the new sanctuary began in January and should be complete by late December. The new worship area will hold approximately 1,300 people, roughly double what the church can support in its current state.

The room that currently serves as the place of worship will be used for several different events such as parish dances, lecture series, theater presentations and overflow rooms for Christmas and Easter masses. It cost $6.5 million for the new building and Pavlakovich said the congregation will pay for the structure. He said the church needed $3 million in hand before starting the project and they were able to raise that in "record time."

"This is really a great community. They've stepped it up on many levels," he said.

Parishioner Joy Jaeger said when she first came to Light of the World eight years ago, it didn't appear like any Catholic church she was used to, but she quickly realized it was only incomplete.

She said the congregation is excited to get in the new building.

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WEST FARGO Construction will begin soon on a Catholic church and elementary school here, making the dual-purpose site home to the fifth Catholic school and one of the largest sanctuaries in the metro area.

Construction crews will break ground April 24 on a roughly 12-acre site at 2820 Bluestem Drive, which will be the home of Holy Cross Catholic Church and Trinity Elementary School.

Construction on the 76,000 square-foot site is expected to be finished by next year.

The school must be ready for occupancy by July 15, 2015, said Earl Wilhelm, property manager for the Fargo Diocese. The church doesnt necessarily have a deadline.

Bishop John Folda of the Diocese of Fargo said the $15.3 million, 76,000-square-foot project has been in the works for seven years, while West Fargo has been one of the fastest-growing cities in the diocese.

In December, Holy Cross Church sold its building at 1420 16th St. E. in West Fargo to the Lutheran Church of the Cross after the two churches shared a site for almost 30 years.

Both churches outgrew their respective houses, and Holy Cross already had tapped the southern West Fargo site as a place to grow. Holy Cross members will continue to attend at the current site until the new church is completed.

Its been talked about for a long time, and different options were explored, including building on the current location, Folda said. Unfortunately, the space there was inadequate and wouldnt work for the current needs and anticipated growth. With the additional elementary school and facility upgrades, we can successfully support Catholic advancement in this area. The entire faith community will benefit.

The Rev. James Meyer at Holy Cross said the new church will have a main sanctuary that can seat about 1,000, which is double the worship space available now.

Holy Cross has almost tripled in size since the mid-1990s. It now serves about 1,300 families, Meyer said.

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MUSCATINE, Iowa The old St. Mary's Catholic Church nestled on 417 Green St. sits tall among trees that havent come alive yet this spring. For the church, it will probably be its last spring intact.

The construction of St. Marys began in 1876, at the request of the communitys German Catholic population, and was complete in the fall of 1877. The first mass the building hosted was held two years later, in the cold of winter by the parishs first German-speaking pastor, the Rev. John Ignatius Grieser. It was under the guiding hand of Grieser that the church built St. Marys school and acquired its Pfeiffer pipe organ, which has become a part of the Organ Historic Societys database.

Now, nearly 140 years after it was built, St. Marys is about to be torn down.

Parishioner Coletta Logel, 81, is heartbroken over her churchs pending demolition.

Thats the only church Ive known, she said. She began attending St. Marys as a child in the 40s with her family. Though the parishes of St. Marys and St. Mathias, the other Catholic church in Muscatine, have been combined since 2000 and St. Marys has been out of use due to safety issues since last year, Logel says St. Mathias still doesnt feel like home. Not like St. Marys.

Everybody told me when I was so upset, Its just a building, Logel recalled, her voice impassioned by emotion. I know it is just a building. But in that building, it contains memories years. There is 70-some years of memories in that [building].

Those memories include her wedding. She wed Pete Logel as a sixteen-year-old girl while all the older women who she recalls always sat in the back of the church murmured about how her marriage would never work. That wedding, held before her god in her church, was the start of a marriage that would last nearly 60 years, until Petes death in 2006. St. Mary's framed her relationship with her husband, as it was from St. Marys that Pete was buried.

In between those times, Logel saw all five of her children baptized in St. Marys and a couple of them married there as well. Logels friend Maryann Hines four children were also baptized there.

Hines siblings, too, were baptized at St. Mary's as was she in mid- January, 1933. St. Marys was her church from birth.

Id still go when they tore it down if theyd leave us, she said. While she says she feels resigned to the churchs fate, the demolition of St. Marys still makes her sad. She recalls a time when there were 600 families in the church and she, too, has the memories of her childrens weddings in the building. Though she herself was not married there, the church did hold a nuptial mass for her and her husband Carl after they were wed on an army base in Georgia.

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CTV Toronto Published Friday, April 11, 2014 12:22PM EDT Last Updated Friday, April 11, 2014 10:45PM EDT

Residents in Aurora, Ont., are mourning the loss a 135-year-old church after a massive fire ripped through the building Friday morning.

Emergency crews were called to Aurora United Church near Yonge Street and Mosley Street just before 10:30 a.m. Friday.

About 60 firefighters, including six local fire trucks and additional fire crews from Richmond Hill, worked to contain the blaze at the height of the fire.

Thick clouds of smoke could be seen billowing from the roof of the building hours after the blaze first broke out and a large portion of the churchs back wall also collapsed.

Police said a group of pre-schoolers and adults were inside the church before the blaze broke out and were immediately cleared from the building.

Officers cleared six to eight homes in the nearby area and evacuated buildings and businesses close to the church as a precaution.

Deputy Fire Chief Paul Leslie told reporters that the fire is believed to have started in the rear roof of the building.

Leslie said the flames were so intense that crews were forced to pull away from the building at one point.

Its just the nature of churches - they are very tall, you cannot access the roof from the inside and so it just made it very difficult for us to fight the fire, Leslie said.

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Wednesday's meeting was "the end of the public review and approval process," said Elizabeth S. Rogan, president of the board.

The plan from Dranoff Properties calls for construction of an apartment building with retail at ground level and parking.

Critics say the project is too big for its site and neighborhood. Proponents claim it would boost downtown Ardmore by drawing young residents to live in a transit-friendly building near the train station.

The meeting's more than five hours of discussion on the proposal was punctuated by tetchy exchanges among commissioners, staff, and audience members.

The last dustup came around midnight, between Commissioner Lewis F. Gould Jr. and Philip S. Rosenzweig, the Building and Planning Committee's cochair.

In a last round of commissioner comments before the vote, Gould scolded Rosenzweig as being "boorish" in how he had laid down rules at the meeting's start for what could be discussed about the project.

Rosenzweig supports the project, while Gould opposes it if it is given state funding, which currently is in question.

Gould also was critical of his colleague's comments about another commissioner, Cheryl B. Gelber, who announced during the meeting that she had gone from being a supporter of the project to opposing it. Gelber was not at the table for the vote.

Rosenzweig used his comment time, he said Thursday afternoon, to reply that he wouldn't "lower myself to respond to Commissioner Gould's venomous comments."

The sniping among commissioners began last weekend in a series of heated e-mails.

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