The former St. Jerome’s Church, school building and rectory in Tamaqua has a new owner.

On Jan. 21, the Diocese of Allentown closed on the sale of the church, school and rectory at the corner of West Broad and Swatara streets.

The buyer was identified as Andy Medas-King. He purchased the property for $139,000.

Diocese officials and Medas-King were unavailable for comment.

The buildings are in the borough’s general commercial zoning district. Leah Jones of the Jim Christman Team, who represented the buyer in the sale, said he is interested in reusing the existing buildings.

The former St. Jerome Church was on the market for over six months.

The St. Jerome’s Parish served Catholics in Tamaqua from 1834-2014. Services continued at the church in the consolidated St. John XXIII Parish through 2018.

The parish school, which later became a regional Catholic school, operated at the Broad Street location from 1921 to 2018. St. Jerome’s Regional School then relocated to Rush Township.

The St. Jerome’s Church building was opened in 1861, and was renovated in the 1910s. The parish’s first church building, located on the same site, opened in 1834.

In 2019, three priests who were buried beside the church were disinterred and moved to a cemetery. In 2020, the 3,400-pound brass bell was removed from the church tower.