The Centre Moral i Instructiu de Gràcia was an association founded in 1868 to promote Catholic schools and neutralize republican ideas. The man in charge of the project was the architect Francesc Berenguer, who had close ties with the institution, eventually becoming its vice-president.
Since 1904, it has had a theater with stalls and two levels of horseshoe-shaped circles. In 1907, it opened what would be the first library in the neighborhood. Closed during the Spanish Civil War, it reopened in 1939 and today continues to offer theater, choir singing and folk dancing. It is also the headquarters of a Sant Medir association.