Religious Conversions: Old Train Cars Turned into Churches

Of all of the creative adaptive reuse architecture in the world, these converted churches are some of the strangest things most patrons have probably ever seen – a combination of a conventional symbol of modern transportation with an age-old religious institution is anything but a natural structural fit or obvious redesign choice.


It is clear that though the trappings of typical religious buildings can be added to these unused train cars there is no way to easily convert them to their new purpose entirely without showing many signs of their previous lives.

Nonetheless, some of the results are surprisingly convincing when they involve camouflaging the building and blending materials like wood with old rusted paint jobs and putting up fences to mask the appearance of the structure from a distance. (Examples from EnglishRussia).