Pastor Barbara Berry-Bailey is used to opening her church’s doors to the public. Soon, she may have to close them for the first time in a hundred years.

“I know we’re going to do Christmas from here, but that is up to the congregation as to the timeline, when they want to move and what they want to do,” she said.

Berry-Bailey is the pastor of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church at 1600 Grant St. in Uptown, which was listed for sale last month for $1.9 million. The cornerstone for the Gothic church was laid in 1925 when the congregation was moving from its original home at 22nd and California streets, according to its entry into the National Register of Historic Places.

In Berry-Bailey’s seven years of ministry there, Sunday attendance has dwindled from 60 to around 20. She showed a BusinessDen r

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