COLUMBIA, S.C. — Columbia’s old Rosewood Baptist Church may never not look like a church.
This fall, when residents fill into modern new apartments inside the half-century-old sanctuary, they’ll set their dining tables beneath 40-foot arched windows, once filled by colorful stained glass. Their decor will be flanked by the old church’s dark oak panels; some will have the white-painted cinder block walls of former Sunday school classrooms. Someone’s living room will sit roughly in the footprint of the former baptismal pool.
And one unique apartment will boast a 20-plus-foot-tall stained glass mosaic of Jesus Christ, arms and hands outstretched. (A construction worker on site cheekily referenced the apartment as “the Jesus Suite.”)
