Update: I revisited the church in January of 2023.
The former Most Blessed Sacrament Roman Catholic Church is sadly abandoned, and increasingly open to the elements. There was another congregation in the building after the parish closed, but it is gone now, too. The old school, to the north up Kingshighway, is now Covenant House, a non-profit that serves the homeless.
Most Blessed Sacrament opened in 1908, and closed in 2001. See some of the neighborhood around the church in this post from June of 2020.
Around back on Northland Avenue, the extent of some of the damage is evident. It looks like someone built a makeshift ladder on the roof to get up to a serious hole, and then never got back to fix it. There is certainly major water damage inside now.
The rectory is empty and abandoned.
But happily, what was probably the former convent for the church is still occupied and is an adult daycare.
My heart is broken after reading and seeing pictures of my childhood parish, ‘ Most Blessed Sacrament’ abandoned and in total disrepair. I have beautiful memories attending Most Blessed Sacrament School during the 1960’s. I lived across Kingshighway on Maffitt Place and walked to school daily. The nuns were strict disciplinarians and their devotion to Jesus Christ unparalleled. I learned so much from them, and I am eternally grateful for the experience they provided which enriched my life beyond measure ♥️😢♥️.
I lived on Maffitt Place from 1966-68 and attended Most Blessed Sacrament for two years before moving to Berkeley in 1968.
I attended Blessed Sacrament in 1962, 4th grade Sister Alfred’s class, Ms Sealy taught 5th grade, and she also lived on Maffitt Place. My family moved to Webster Groves Mo, after 4th grade..
I lived at4968 northland across from the church as a kid about 1936 I hate to see what this city is now. we went to this church but i went to Benton School down the street.
I lived at 5221 Northland Ave in the early 60’s. I attended Blessed Sacrament School until we moved. The neighborhood was so nice, our old apartment is no longer standing. It breaks my heart to see how the neighborhood as deteriorated!
Glynis Hicks, I was there in 4th grade, my bro Donald 5th grade, my sister Valerie, Kindergarten. I always thought the church was so beautiful …
I attended Blessed Sacrament/Bishop Healy in the 1970s, before we moved to Webster Groves. My grandmother lived on Greer, so I would walk to school with my cousins who lived several doors down. We left the city in part because of the rising crime, but one the education I got at Blessed Sacrament/Bishop Healy was invaluable and I was more than prepared when I started at Holy Redeemer in Webster. It’s so very sad to see the ongoing decay of St. Louis, but I do hope that some how, some way (immigration, the city joining the county, etc.) the core city, with so many treasures and such a rich history, can be revived.
John K, my family also moved to Webster Groves; but is was after 2 yrs in Rock Hill. So St Mary Magdalen was first, then Holy Redeemer on Lock Wood.
Was Sister Stella Martin and Monsignor Durkin still there?
I visited Most Blessed Sacrament in the 1990’s, at that time I lived in the oldest house on Union built in 1907. My family relocated to St Louis from California in 1994. Brother Joseph a Jesuit Monk from High Ridge, Missouri invited me to Most Blessed Sacrament in the late 1990s and it was he who introduced me to the Pink Sisters at Mt. Grace. By the 1990s Most Blessed Sacrament was predominantly African American Perish and being raised Baptist and now am Pentecostal it was the first Roman Catholic Church I visited and at that time they had very lively services. Their choir marched down the aisle in their Purple robes on Sunday morning like the choir from Sister Act and the whole congregation clapped their hands, sang and rocked from side to side. The sanctuary, immaculate; stain glass windows, pipe organ, ornate handcrafted molding through out the building, insece, candles, the cleanliness, it gave me a sense of joy and belonging. Their membership full of the kindness people. what a blessing it was and in the 1990s the church still had a full but aginging congregation. Most congregants in the 1990s were 40 or older. I left St Louis for college in South Carolina in 1996 and came home during summer breaks and still visited Most Blessed Sacrament but Brother Joseph my mentor went on mission trips to Nigeria and Philippines. I never saw him again and in 2003 I joined the military went abroad. In 2010 I returned to St Louis and Most Blessed Sacrament had begun merger with St Elizabeth. The building became empty but several years it was intact. Only After the building was sold did it fall into disrepair due to neglect by its owners.