Our Lady of Pompeii leased for 99 years

Crain's Business News reported on 4.22.2026 that a developer has signed a 99-year lease on Our Lady of Pompeii church for $17,000,000. The church is located at 225 Seigel Street in Bushwick. Please see my earlier post describing this church, once a rope factory. Please also note the personal comments below that post. Also, it appears that Our Lady of Pompeii was canonically merged into All Saints parish. 

Our Lady of Pompeii, Bushwick

Our Lady of the Rosary of Pompeii Church was located at 225 Seigel St., Brooklyn NY 11206,  For Mass schedules, see the link underlined in the previous sentence.  The Pallottine Order of Priests and Brothers, S.A.C., or Società dell'Apostolato Cattolico, staff this parish. No! In 2026 there is no staff. The property has been leased. See the newer post.

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A decorative plaza faces the church door. An office and instructional rooms are to the left, along Seigel Street. The cornerstone, visible above, is dated 1902. At that time, the parish was almost entirely Italian. The principal languages now seem to be English and Spanish.
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In the distant past, the church was a rope factory, an elongated building needed for the shipping industry.



Our Lady of Guadalupe.

The devotion to Our Lady of the Rosary of Pompeii began in the late 1800's, only a few years before this church was built.



For decades, the neighborhood has been more Latin American than Italian, so it is appropriate that Vincenzo Pallotti is honored with his baptismal name in Spanish. As he lived 1795-1850, he predates the devotion to Our Lady of Pompeii. A brief history of the work he founded is linked here. But who is Herr Seigel?


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