{"id":84471,"date":"2026-07-16T11:46:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T15:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=84471"},"modified":"2026-07-16T11:46:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T15:46:35","slug":"muslim-nonprofit-acquires-former-catholic-seminary-in-bay-shore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/muslim-nonprofit-acquires-former-catholic-seminary-in-bay-shore\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslim Nonprofit Acquires Former Catholic Seminary In Bay Shore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Long Island Business News:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A\u00a0former\u00a0Catholic\u00a0seminary\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"st_tag internal_tag \" title=\"Posts tagged with boarding school\" href=\"https:\/\/libn.com\/tag\/boarding-school\/?taxo-tag-body\" rel=\"tag\">boarding school<\/a>\u00a0in Bay Shore\u00a0has been sold to a Muslim\u00a0<a class=\"st_tag internal_tag \" title=\"Posts tagged with Nonprofit\" href=\"https:\/\/libn.com\/tag\/nonprofit\/?taxo-tag-body\" rel=\"tag\">nonprofit<\/a>\u00a0with plans to revive\u00a0a similar use for the\u00a0property.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335559739&quot;:0}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Clifton, N.J.-based United American Muslim Association\u00a0purchased\u00a0the three-story, 70,000-square-foot building on\u00a014.6 acres\u00a0at 26 South Saxon Ave. for $5.2 million.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:0,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:279}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The Bay Shore seminary complex was founded in 1926 by the\u00a0<a class=\"st_tag internal_tag \" title=\"Posts tagged with Monfort Missionaries\" href=\"https:\/\/libn.com\/tag\/monfort-missionaries\/?taxo-tag-body\" rel=\"tag\">Monfort Missionaries<\/a>, which closed the boarding school on the property in 1972 and more recently served as a home and retreat for\u00a0Catholic priests.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335559739&quot;:0}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Long Island Business News: A\u00a0former\u00a0Catholic\u00a0seminary\u00a0and\u00a0boarding school\u00a0in Bay Shore\u00a0has been sold to a Muslim\u00a0nonprofit\u00a0with plans to revive\u00a0a similar use for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84472,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84471\/revisions\/84472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}