8 hotels around the world that used to be churches

17:05 - 05 February 2016

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A new trend in England - "champing" is seeing churches voluntarily offer their premises to interested tourists to pass the night.

In these parts, its not particularly unheard of for folks to pass the night in churches - either during the course of services or even afterwards.

However, a new trend in England is seeing churches voluntarily offer their premises to interested tourists to pass the night.

According to

England reportedly has over 345 important at-risk parish churches that no longer house congregations but contain irreplaceable examples of architecture and art spanning 1,000 years.

Thus, folks are charged a small fee to spend a candle-lit evening "champing" - which is the new term that has been coined to describe the trend.

So what do these "champs" offer? Ad hoc facilities including compost toilets, cots and camp stoves which are only available between the hours of 3 p.m. and 11 a.m. when the churches reopen to everyday visitors.

This isn't quite the case in other areas though, places like Netherlands and Morocco have seen former churches transformed to hotels.

Here are 8 hotels around the world that used to be churches.

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