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Masonic lodges, ashrams, XXX clubs: What’s a ‘sordid’ use for a former church?

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JD Flynn
and
Ed. Condon
Mar 25, 2022
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When St. Mary Presentation Catholic Parish in the eastern Washington town of Deer Park outgrew its parish church building, local Catholics knew it was time to build a bigger church.

Meeting hall of the Boyer Mountain Masonic Lodge #134, in a renovated former parish church. The Masonic symbol stands where there had been a high altar. Credit: Boyer Mountai…

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