St. Agnes Parish (I)


A few years later though, a police raid on an after-hours drinking establishment down the street led to a confrontation between officers and residents that quickly grew into one of the worst outbursts of civil unrest the country would ever see. Though the church was relatively unscathed by the 1967 riots, most of the buildings around it (on the same block) were burned to the ground. The neighborhood never recovered, and attendance numbers started to drop. Through the 1980’s, the number of parishioners fell from 1,500 to just a few hundred. By 1986 there were just 162 families worshiping at the church, not nearly enough to cover the operating cost of such a large church.  The church closed its doors in 2006.


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