One of Ireland’s biggest churches, the 3,500-seat Annunciation Church in Dublin, Finglas West, was demolished, reports ItsMyIreland on Youtube.com (October 25, Video below).
Plans to tear down the building were announced three years ago due to falling attendance, a deteriorating structure, and safety concerns. Archbishop John Charles McQuaid (+1973) commissioned the church in brutalist style in 1962. It was opened in 1967.
Mass attendance in Ireland has collapsed from 91% weekly Mass attendance in 1972 to presently 2% in parts of Dublin. The church will be replaced by a smaller structure that will seat just over 300. There is little hope that the new church will be more beautiful than the previous