1460 Pearson Ave. SW., Birmingham, Alabama. County/parish: Jefferson.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places July 21, 2015. NRIS 15000430.
1 contributing building.
Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church is a historic church located at 1460 Pearson Avenue SW in Birmingham, Alabama. The parish was established in 1911 and the church completed in 1930. The interior decoration of the building was not completed until 1959. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.
Its liturgical life is distinctive locally for offering Latin Mass (Extraordinary Form) every Sunday. The church has also been used for important liturgies of the Catholic Diocese of Birmingham in Alabama such as a "Blue Mass" honoring police officers.
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