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The Cathedral of St. George Historic District encompasses a historic church complex at 517-523-525 East Broadway in South Boston, Massachusetts.The church building was designed by Boston architect Samuel J. F. Thayer and was built in 1872 to house a Unitarian congregation.
As a result of the Hudson Incident, Fan Noli helped organize the Saint George Albanian Orthodox Church at the Knights of Honor Hall on Tremont Street in Boston. [1] The church later evolved into the Saint George Albanian Orthodox Cathedral, today the seat of the Albanian Archdiocese of the Orthodox Church in America. [8]
The Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese in America has a diocese in Massachusetts. The Cathedral of St. George Historic District hosts services related to the diocese. [7] The Holy Trinity Church is an Albanian-language church in South Boston. The MAAS BESA is an Albanian community organization which serves the Greater Boston Area.
Albanian Orthodox Churches. St George Cathedral: Located near the intersection of East and West Broadway, St George is the largest Orthodox Christian house of worship in Massachusetts. As the mother church of the Albanian diocese, the Cathedral serves as episcopal seat of Archbishop Nikon, Archbishop of Boston, New England and the Albanian ...
20 Devens St: Charlestown, Boston: Massachusetts [15] 1872: Second Hawes Congregational Church, Unitarian (former) 523 E Broadway: South Boston, Boston: Massachusetts: Presently the St. George Albanian Orthodox Cathedral. The church anchors the Cathedral of St. George Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998 ...
The earliest organized Albanian dioceses were set up under the auspices of the Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church in America (now Orthodox Church in America), because the Church of Constantinople would not allow the rise of any Albanian Orthodox Church and officially opposed the use of the Albanian language in churches until 1937 when the Autocephalic Orthodox Church of Albania was ...
The church of Saint George was the first Albanian American church, and the first Albanian Orthodox church in overall. Meanwhile, Kristo Kirka became President of the society. The society contributed also in the spread of Albanian education in Ottoman Albania, i.e. the Normal School of Elbasan, the first institution for higher education in ...
Mark (Lipa) organized the diocese in 1950 and accepted into it the large community in Chicago and an older parish, the first of three Albanian Orthodox parishes to locate in South Boston. Ten other Albanian Orthodox parishes incorporated under Bp. Theofan's archdiocese and two parishes persisted in an "independent" status.