St. Louis-based Ministry Buys Mount Vernon Church Surrounded by Scaffolding

1/26/21

By Ed Gunts, Baltimore Brew

The church with the unsightly scaffolding has a new owner.

Eight years after exasperated city officials erected metal tubing and a temporary wooden roof around the perimeter of New Refuge Deliverance Cathedral to protect pedestrians from falling tiles, the building has been purchased by a growing Midwest ministry.

Olivet Assembly USA, a division of World Olivet Assembly, has bought the landmark property at 1110 St. Paul Street, originally known as Christ Protestant Episcopal Church and later as Christ Church, for $550,000.

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