Church & State, on Saturday, March 11, 2023. The former church building is a community space, small-business hub and event venue, where any member of the public can use the Wi-Fi, read on one of the many vintage couches, study, or work.When you walk past the Church & State building in downtown Salt Lake City, signs for a coffee shop and a barbershop beckon you inside. But it used to be harder to tell whether the public was welcome.
It’s also a small-business hub and venue space, with several businesses open to the public throughout the former church’s halls and along the edges of the sanctuary, with events held there regularly. Halo makes coffee at Cafe Juniper, at Church & State, on Saturday, March 11, 2023. That move brought a “shift” to the organization, Anderson said, and it dovetailed with the nonprofit’s plan to “be more open to the public.” Mariah Fralick in front of her Bell, Book and Candle shop inside Church & State, on Tuesday, March 14, 2023.
“We look for ways to help you create rituals of self care, remembrance and celebration, whatever that means for you,” Mariah Fralick said. “It really is about the items that enchant you, little things that charm you in a day that just help you to recognize the magic you already have in your life.” She said one thing that’s special about her services is her use of an old-fashioned, vibrating barber massager to massage the scalp, shoulders and neck. She likes to tell her clients, “I’ll send you home with some good vibrations.”
So cool!
For those for whom drinking a great cup of coffee will be the closest they ever come to a religious experience...