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Only in Tampa: A cigar lounge in a place you’d never expect — a historic church Historic Tampa church transformed into a cigar lounge and last updated 2021-04-05 08:06:53-04 TAMPA, Fla. — A 115-year-old church is getting a new life under a haze of smoke. Services haven't been held at the First Congressional Church for decades. The old building is now getting a new life from some ambitious entrepreneurs. Tampa is known as the cigar capital of the world. That is what led cigar aficionado Angela Yue to move from California to Florida. "California is just not the most conducive pla...

They worship cigars at a historic Tampa church building The 114-year-old First Congregational Church building is now Grand Cathedral Cigars.     Grand Cathedral Cigars, a cigar lounge located inside the former First Congregational Church, a historic building in Tampa Heights. [ MARTHA ASENCIO RHINE | Times ] Updated Mar. 17 TAMPA — A religious service has not been held in the 115-year-old First Congregational Church building for decades. But it still feels like a place of worship, with the deity being Arturo Fuente, the international cigar company rooted in Tampa. Fuente cigar la...