Sacred Heart Church is a historic church and former

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on MLK Drive at Bayview Avenue in the Greenville section of

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History and description

Built between 1922 and 1924, it was designed by Boston architect

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with a mixture of Spanish Gothic and Moorish architecture. Its stained glass windows were designed by the then 18-year-old

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. The complex is listed on the

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but is considered threatened. Sacred Heart Church closed in 2005 when the number of parishioners dropped to a few hundred from the 4,000 it had at its peak. The Archdiocese of Newark has no plans to reopen the church. The affiliated Sacred Heart School remains open. The priory of the church become home of the Jersey City Employment & Training Program (JCETP) re-entry program, headed by

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, in 2015. During the

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the school was on

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and used as defensive position during the incident. That school was taken over by law-enforcement agencies and used during the incident.

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