Yes. My comment was about "here in the USA" because the grandparent comment talked about churches existing "before Boston". Churches are routinely handed over

Yes. My comment was about "here in the USA" because the grandparent comment talked about churches existing "before Boston". Churches are routinely handed over to the state or to commercial entities in order to preserve them because church membership is in rapid decline and its very expensive to take care of the church building especially if it has "survived millennia".