Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, Interfaith art museum at Saint Louis University, United States

The Museum of Contemporary Religious Art (MOCRA) occupied the former chapel of Fusz Memorial Hall on the Saint Louis University campus in St. Louis, Missouri. Jesuit priest Terrence E. Dempsey proposed converting the large chapel into a museum, and the renovated space opened to the public on February 14, 1993, with the exhibition Sanctuaries: Recovering the Holy in Contemporary Art, showing more than 100 works by 25 artists.

The museum opened on February 14, 1993, in the former chapel of Fusz Memorial Hall, after the Jesuits moved their house of studies. Its founding grew from the doctoral research of Jesuit priest Terrence E. Dempsey on sacred content in 1980s American art. It was the world's first interfaith museum of contemporary art engaging religious and spiritual themes. It closed permanently on May 31, 2026, due to budget cuts.

The museum's name reflects its interfaith purpose: it showed contemporary art engaging religious and spiritual themes across faith traditions. Its inaugural 1993 exhibition, Sanctuaries: Recovering the Holy in Contemporary Art, gathered more than 100 works by 25 artists. The building itself is the former chapel of the Jesuit Fusz Memorial Hall, a space repurposed for art.

MOCRA occupied the former chapel of Fusz Memorial Hall, the Jesuit house of studies on the Saint Louis University campus, before closing permanently on May 31, 2026 because of budget cuts. The museum is no longer open, so visits and gallery hours no longer apply.

The collection combines traditional religious art forms with modern media like photography and video installations. This creates surprising connections between ancient spiritual concepts and contemporary artistic practices.