During the Civil war in Spain in the 1930s, all churches were closed against worship.
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Priests and religious were detailed, jailed or shot without due process in the thousands.
All monasteries and convents were emptied and their buildings repurposed.
Bells, chalices, monstrances, and candelabras were melted down and used for the war.
All altars, religious images and objects of worship were destroyed.
Many of the churches were burned.
During the Civil war in Spain in the 1930s, all churches were closed against worship