Tag: hybrid worship

Churches Are Building Again, and Not the Same Buildings
Architecture, Planning, Published | September 23, 2026
Churches Are Building Again, and Not the Same Buildings

Religious construction spending is running 24.7 percent ahead of last year while the rest of the market contracts, and the median American congregation now gathers about 70 adults. Those two facts together explain why the worship rooms being drawn today are sized differently than the ones built twenty years ago, and why the programming question has shifted from seat count to hours of use.

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