The majority of research on the reuse of religious buildings focuses on cultural resilience, especially how architectural fabric, heritage value, and community use can be sustained or adapted despite social, economic, and demographic change. For many religious buildings, however, particularly those in post-industrial and rural communities, adaptive or even hybrid reuse is practically impossible, resulting in outcomes such as abandonment or demolition. In literature, these outcomes are frequently overlooked or seen as failures. Using case study materials from a lost religious building in deindustrialized North America, this paper questions the assumption of failure by reframing responses to loss as different but no less significant expressions of personal rather than cultural or historical resilience, resistance, and perseverance. It does so by examining how the disappearance of religious architecture is lived through fragmentary forms of architectural continuity, institutional deconsecration liturgies, and personal acts of remembrance that respond to and unmake sacred spaces. Rather than seeing loss and resilience as opposites, this paper treats the response to loss as one of the ways resilience takes shape. In this way, processes associated with loss, such as demolition and deconsecration, may be understood as encounters with altered or absent architectural forms that allow individuals to re-orient themselves, in other words, to be resilient in memory and place, revealing resilience not only as a continuity of form but as the capacity to dwell meaningfully amid architectural absence.