The Church of the Blessed Sacrament | |
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General information | |
Architectural style | Gothic Revival (for church-school) / Modernist (for second school) |
Town or city | Soundview, Bronx, New York City, New York |
Country | United States of America |
Construction started | 1928 (for church-school) 1955 (for second school) |
Completed | 1929 (for church-school) |
Technical details | |
Structural system | Masonry stone (for church-school), brick (for second school) |
Design and construction | |
Client | Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York |
The Church of the Blessed Sacrament is a Roman Catholic parish church under the authority of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, located at Beach Avenue and Gleason Avenue, Soundview, Bronx, New York City, New York. The parish was established in 1927.[1][2]
Like many other parish churches with parochial schools in this city, the built structure is a combination with the church on the ground floor and school classrooms above. The cornerstone for the combined structures is dated 1928. It was completed in 1929.[2] An additional brick schoolhouse has a cornerstone dated 1955.[2] The rectory address is 1170 Beach Avenue, Bronx NY 10472.[2]
The school was founded around 1929. "Judge Sonia Sotomayor, 55, was a student at Blessed Sacrament in the 1960s, attending kindergarten through eighth grade at the Catholic school and graduating at the top of the class of 1968."[3] She was the valedictorian and had a near-perfect attendance record.[4][5][6] "It would seem that the school has 40 or 50 students per grade."[2]