Flatirons Community Church
church building in Colorado, United States of America
Flatirons Community Church is a large non-denominational evangelical megachurch based in Lafayette, Colorado, roughly 10 miles east of Boulder. Founded in the mid-1990s, it operates multiple campuses in the Denver–Boulder area and an online service. Flatirons has been included in national listings of large U.S. churches published by Outreach magazine and CBS News.
History
Flatirons Community Church traces its origins to the mid-1990s. The congregation initially met under different names in the Boulder area before adopting the name Flatirons Community Church by the late 1990s. By the early 2000s the congregation had grown substantially: reporting in 2002 placed weekly attendance at about 1,700, and by the mid-2000s attendance had increased to several thousand.
In the late 2000s the church sought to expand its Lafayette facilities. The Lafayette City Council approved a site plan in November 2008, but the church revised plans in late 2009 after local residents and business owners raised concerns about traffic and building scale.
Rather than building new ground-up facilities at the original site, the church ultimately renovated and combined two large vacant retail buildings in Lafayette to create a consolidated campus. The adaptive-reuse project converted former big-box grocery/retail space into a worship and education campus totaling roughly 160,000 sq ft; the main auditorium has been reported with capacity in the multiple-thousands (approximately 4,000 seats).
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