Steeple at Religion Lutheran Church in Cambridge to return down after devastating Easter fireplace

CAMBRIDGE – The steeple on the Religion Lutheran Church in Cambridge will come down Monday, after a devastating fireplace on Easter Sunday.

Nobody was harm within the fireplace, which began a couple of half-hour after parishioners left following an Easter service. The fireplace didn’t unfold or harm any buildings close by, however the excessive, open ceilings of the church and the wooden all through allowed it to burn quick.

Firefighters stayed on the scene on Broadway in a single day to assist stop the steeple from collapsing after flames tore by way of it. However engineers stated Monday it must come down due to structural integrity considerations.

“It has been a spot of worship for various communities for over a century and so we will do every little thing we are able to to protect it for future generations. Nevertheless it’s an emotional second. It fills me with unhappiness and with dread in regards to the work that’s forward of us,” Pastor Robin Lutjohann advised WBZ-TV.

“It’s devastating,” stated church member Diane Garner, who’s worshipped on the church for greater than 20 years. “We’re not going to have a church.”

“I do not know the place we go from right here,” she advised WBZ.

Lutjohann stated the church would attempt to discover a technique to host their soup kitchen on Tuesday.

There isn’t any phrase but on how or the place the fireplace began.