Hollow Sanctuaries: When Churches Become Mosques, by Kevin Cohe

By Kevin Cohen, The American Spectator, December 11, 2025

As churches empty, mosques take their place across the West.

On certain Sunday mornings in America, you can still hear a church bell toll across an otherwise silent neighborhood. The sound is familiar, but the congregation it once summoned has vanished. Pews sit undisturbed, hymnals gather dust, and sanctuaries once filled with life now echo only with the footsteps of estate agents measuring out a future that will no longer be Christian. In much of the West, the bell remains — but its audience has gone.