Historic Fells Point Trail: St. Patrick's Church

Be Here Stories

This tour of Fells Point Historic Trail is created by The Baltimore National Heritage Area (BNHA), which promotes, preserves, and enhances Baltimore's historic and cultural legacy and natural resources for current and future generations. A walking tour of this and other destinations is available at www.explorebaltimore.org/tours. Located at 317 S. Broadway Transcript: The story of St. Patrick's Church begins with, and is currently tied to, Fells Point's diverse community of immigrants. When the first Catholic parish was established in Fells Point in 1792, French immigrants greatly outnumbered Irish immigrants, so many of the priests were French. When it was time to dedicate this church, the French and Irish agreed to call it St. Patrick after the saint who emigrated from the region of France to Ireland. This church served a large community for more than 100 years, but after the Second World War, many people moved out to the suburbs and stopped coming to St. Patrick's. After decades of barely attended Mass, the church now has a thriving parish thanks to new groups of immigrants of Hispanic descent.