Music + Performance
A sanctuary-scale room for rehearsals, small performances, readings, lectures, and community events.
The Vision
Preserve the building. Keep the sanctuary alive.
This project is about preserving an old Baltimore church as a living community asset, not stripping it down or turning it into something generic.
The sanctuary remains the heart of the building: a flexible space for music, theater, performance, readings, lectures, community gatherings, reflective use, and creative work.
The goal is adaptive use that respects the history of the building while giving it a practical future rooted in arts, culture, neighborhood connection, and local pride.
The Building
A space with memory, scale, and purpose.
Arts + Creative Reuse
A place for artists, makers, designers, technical theater work, photography, sound, and hands-on creative projects.
Community Gathering
A historic space where neighbors, families, artists, local organizations, and partners can connect.
Why It Matters
Older buildings carry memory. They also need new purpose.
Baltimore’s older religious and civic buildings helped shape neighborhood life. When spaces like these go quiet, the loss is not just architectural. It is cultural.
Sanctuary Pigtown is an effort to keep the best part of the building intact while opening a path for arts, music, performance, preservation, and community use to grow around it.
How to Help
We are looking for local knowledge, partners, preservation advice, artists, builders, and community connections.
If you know Baltimore preservation, adaptive reuse, old churches, arts spaces, community projects, or practical building work, we would like to hear from you.
Contact Sanctuary Pigtown