Blessed Sacrament

Vanessa Snow was a youth organizer for the Hyde Square Task Force (HSTF) when the Archdiocese of Massachusetts announced it was closing the Blessed Sacrament Church in 2005. Snow and other teens working at the Jamaica Plain youth-focused nonprofit knew what they wanted to happen there.

Satisfying skeptics and making good on its promises so far, an almost forgotten attempt at preserving the Blessed Sacrament church building has now made its way back into the Pennrose proposal.

After standing empty for more than a decade, the Blessed Sacrament Church in Jamaica Plain will finally open its doors once again — this time to residents rather than parishioners.

After years of watching the Blessed Sacrament Church in the Hyde Square neighborhood of Jamaica Plain crumble, residents have now been presented with several development proposals to bring new life into the structure.