Is it a home or a church? Well, it’s both and for sale in Kansas. Take a look inside
Instead of getting up early on Sunday mornings to attend church, imagine if you could just roll right out of bed and walk a few steps to your own house of worship?
Then perhaps this/ home that’s listed for $344,900 in Winfield, Kansas is for you.
Introducing a house-church hybrid — a sanctuary that can be so much more.
“The upstairs sanctuary has a tin ceiling and church pews. It’s just amazing. If you didn’t want to keep the upstairs as a church, I think it would be a great wedding venue, event center, or even a day care,” listing agent Lacey Pool said to Realtor.com
Built in 1920, the five-bedroom, 3.5-bathroom home looks like your perfectly average church on the outside, while the sophisticated-looking living quarters charm beneath the classic, 3,500-square foot sanctuary. Total, the home is 7,000-square feet, the listing says.
Features of the home include:
Fireplace
Large windows
Ample dining room
Study
Storage room
Galley kitchen
“The home has been in the current owner’s family for about 30 years when her father started making the property into both a house and church,” Pool said to Realtor. “They have decided to sell the property because their ministry is taking them elsewhere, and they will be moving out of state.”
Outside is a playground and a three-car garage built in 2001.
House-church hybrids haven’t been a rare thing seen on the real estate market. Just recently, an Airbnb inside a church in Alabama has been getting attention thanks to it supposedly being “haunted,” McClatchy News reported. It’s also not unusual to see a home for sale that was once a church, like this cluster of town homes in Canada.
Winfield is about 42 miles southeast from Wichita.
This story was originally published February 21, 2022 at 2:40 PM with the headline "Is it a home or a church? Well, it’s both and for sale in Kansas. Take a look inside."