Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News,Two more historic churches are gone. Burned to the ground like hundreds more before them.In downtown Grand Rapids, fire tore through a 133-year-old building owned by LaGrave Avenue Christian Reformed Church late Wednesday night. While in Pennington, Alabama, the Ebenezer Baptist Church - a congregation founded in 1850 - was reduced to a total loss in a late-night blaze days earlier.The official language surrounding the causes is already familiar: under investigation, unknown. The buildings are not coming back.? UPDATE ANOTHER HISTORIC CHURCH JUST BURNED DOWN.

LaGrave Avenue Christian Reformed Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan is a whopping 133 YEARS OLD and the cause of the devastating fire is "unknown"

This keeps happening ?

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— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) August 27, 2026?? The historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Pennington, Alabama, has been completely destroyed in a late-night fire.