North America’s Largest Wooden Church May Be Demolished Soon

A preservation group that was working to save the Sainte-Marie church at Church Point, Newfoundland, has declared that all options have been explored.

The 117-year-old church, which has received national and provincial heritage designations, is the largest wooden church in North America

The original $3 million repair cost grew to $10 million in the nine years the committee was in operation owing to inflation and increasing deterioration of the structure

It was unable to raise the money before the deadline set by the Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth

 The deadline to raise the funds was recently extended by the archdiocese until September 30

The church was built over a hundred years ago, using plans that came over from France and the foreman who built it was a local man who could neither read nor write, so he had the parish priest interpret the plans

 The church authorities didn’t have the expertise to develop a national fundraising strategy

The Clare Acadian community is a rural one, and the church is culturally significant for the community

 They will be collaborating with the Notre-Dame-d'Acadie parish administration, of which the church is a member, to decide the next course of action

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