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The Unification Church is selling its historic Washington chapel
The church is selling the landmark Washington Chapel in Adams Morgan to a condo developer and evicting the congregation members who had been living inside, two of whom fought the case in court without a lawyer. A look at the record, the fight to stop the sale, and the building's stranger history.
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