I have lived in the U.S. for a long time, but I was still floored to see this little map of a 7-mile stretch of 16th Street in Washington, DC, between the White House and the Maryland border (click here or here to see the entire street.)
The little red dots are churches on 16th Street. The little blue dots are the churches on the side streets.
There are 45 red dots. There are 85 blue dots. That’s 130 churches, or more than 18 churches a mile. Put another way, that’s one every 94 yards, or less than the length of a football field.
Oh, and the Mormons want to build another one, complete with a 10-story high steeple. But this time it looks like the residents are drawing a line in the sand. Enough is enough, they seem to say. Or is it because they don’t like Mormons? [Can’t blame them…]
It is sometimes said that France has a bar at every corner. Different customs, I guess…
[Would all that piety help explain this? Nah…]
