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In 1909, the Greek Orthodox community paid $18,000 for the lot of city land on which the cathedral stands today. In 1910, the cathedral was complete with a total cost of around $100,000. It was built after an Athenian cathedral and is currently the oldest surviving Chicago building in the style of a Byzantine church .
Chicago - Annunciation Cathedral - 1. The Metropolis of Chicago is a metropolis of the Greek Orthodox Church, part of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, in the North-Central Midwest, United States, with its see city of Chicago. The mother church of the Metropolis is Annunciation Cathedral in Chicago.
Annunciation Cathedral (Greek Orthodox) 41°54′04″N 87°37′57″W / 41.901169°N 87.63244°W / 41.901169; -87.63244 ( Annunciation Cathedral, [ 6 ]
Volunteers from Annunciation's Philoptochos Society of Akron and Kalymnian Society of Campbell, Ohio, baked 400 loaves of tsourekia, a braided sweet Easter bread, Tuesday for Annunciation's Easter ...
Neo-Byzantine architecture in Illinois. Pages in category "Byzantine Revival architecture in Illinois" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
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The Antiochian Orthodox followers were originally cared for by the Russian Orthodox Church in America and the first bishop consecrated in North America, Raphael of Brooklyn, was consecrated by the Russian Orthodox Church in America in 1904 to care for the Syro-Levantine Greek Orthodox Christian Ottoman immigrants to the United States and Canada, who had come chiefly from the vilayets of Adana ...
The interior of the church is adorned with Byzantine style icons . Relief geometric patterns of crosses are etched into the walls of the second story of the current structure. The underlying materials from which the crosser were made was left visible until in 1996 and 1997 pastor Fr. Pavlo Hayda had them painted, and the gold domes restored.