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{{toplink|url=http://www.sacredplacescivicspaces.com|name=sacredplacescivicspaces.com}}<blockquote>''How can historic sacred places support civic engagement, social cohesion, and neighborhood equity?''</blockquote>
<big>{{toplink|url=http://www.sacredplacescivicspaces.com|name=sacredplacescivicspaces.com}}</big><big><blockquote>''How Can Historic Sacred Places Support Civic Engagement, Social Cohesion, and Neighborhood Equity?''</blockquote></big>
Infill Philadelphia is an initiative of the Community Design Collaborative to explore key community development challenges and opportunities through design. Infill Philadelphia engages communities in re-envisioning their neighborhoods, leveraging existing assets, rethinking the use of older spaces, and addressing the practical concerns of specific sites and the communities around them. Infill Philadelphia: Sacred Places/Civic Spaces is a package of community-engaged design services including programs, promotion, and projects with the common goal of re-envisioning historic underutilized sacred spaces as civic spaces.
Infill Philadelphia is an initiative of the Community Design Collaborative to explore key community development challenges and opportunities through design. Infill Philadelphia engages communities in re-envisioning their neighborhoods, leveraging existing assets, rethinking the use of older spaces, and addressing the practical concerns of specific sites and the communities around them. Infill Philadelphia: '''Sacred Places/Civic Spaces''' is '''a package of community-engaged design services including programs, promotion, and projects with the common goal of re-envisioning historic underutilized sacred spaces as civic spaces'''.
 
Historic sacred places have long served as anchors in Philadelphia's neighborhoods. They stand out as beacons for their distinctive architecture, large fathering spaces, cultural significance, strong sense of community, and charitable works. Currently, historic sacred places in Philadelphia are being presented with both challenges and opportunities.
 
Philadelphia's Historic Sacred Places (The Pew Charitable Trusts, 2017) reports that nearly 10% of Philadelphia's 839 historic sacred places have been repurposed as housing, offices, schools, and child care facilities through adaptive reuse. An additional 5% are vacant. Between 2011 and 2015, more than 20 were demolished to make way for new development.
 
Philadelphia also has hundreds of active congregations in purpose-build religious properties acting as stewards of underutilized spaces. Whether it is a vacant sanctuary, sparsely-used meeting hall, or mothballed Sunday School wing, these spaces offer real opportunities for congregations to fulfill their missions and build stronger bonds between places of worship and the surrounding community.
 
Sacred Places/Civic Spaces is a partnership between the Community Design Collaborative and Partners for Sacred Places to re-envision underutilized, purpose-built religious properties as community hubs. The initiative will add the design and development community's voice to a growing dialogue about the intersection between historic sacred places and communities. It will strengthen relationships between sacred places, community organizations, and service providers with a mutual interest in co-location.
 
Sacred Places/Civic Spaces will demonstrate that underutilized space in historic sacred properties throughout Philadelphia can be activated in ways that expand the civic commons, serve a larger secular purpose, and strengthen communities.


''Note:''&nbsp;&nbsp;The above descriptive information came from the organization's [http://www.sacredplacescivicspaces.com/about/ About Sacred Places/Civic Spaces] page.
''Note:''&nbsp;&nbsp;The above descriptive information came from the organization's [http://www.sacredplacescivicspaces.com/about/ About Sacred Places/Civic Spaces] page.
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Latest revision as of 18:55, 20 January 2025

sacredplacescivicspaces.com

How Can Historic Sacred Places Support Civic Engagement, Social Cohesion, and Neighborhood Equity?

Infill Philadelphia is an initiative of the Community Design Collaborative to explore key community development challenges and opportunities through design. Infill Philadelphia engages communities in re-envisioning their neighborhoods, leveraging existing assets, rethinking the use of older spaces, and addressing the practical concerns of specific sites and the communities around them. Infill Philadelphia: Sacred Places/Civic Spaces is a package of community-engaged design services including programs, promotion, and projects with the common goal of re-envisioning historic underutilized sacred spaces as civic spaces.

Note:  The above descriptive information came from the organization's About Sacred Places/Civic Spaces page.

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