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Cathedral of Saint Markella (Genuine Orthodox Church of America) (not in communion with the Ecumenical Patriarch) 40°46′50″N 73°54′38″W / 40.780586°N 73.910654°W / 40.780586; -73.910654 ( Cathedral of Saint Markella (Astoria, New
The marble was transported down to New York City via the Harlem Railroad, where a branch track led to the new cathedral's site. [50] The construction of the new cathedral drew relatively little interest for New York City's non-Catholic population, [63] though several commentators praised the cathedral's design. [31]
The cathedral has an annual New Year's Eve Concert for Peace. The Postlude to Act I of Leonard Bernstein's opera Quiet Place received its New York premiere at the 1985 concert. [333] The 1990 concert was a tribute to Bernstein himself, who helped found the event and had died two months earlier on October 14. [334]
Until 1830 the cathedral was the ending place of New York's annual St. Patrick's Day parade. After that, it ended further south along Mott Street at the Church of the Transfiguration, whose pastor, Felix Varela, was a Spanish political refugee from Cuba. In New York, he served as the chaplain off the Hibernian Universal Benevolent Society.
Pages in category "Cathedrals in New York City" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. ... Cathedral Basilica of St. James (Brooklyn)
St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral is the home of a congregation which was founded in the early 1890s on Second Avenue. In 1899, the church began a building fund with seed money from Czar Nicholas to build a new church. [1] The Cathedral, designed by Finnish-born architect John Bergesen, was completed in 1902 at 15 East 97th Street in ...
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York condemned the funeral of a trans activist that was held last week in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, expressing outrage over what it called “scandalous ...
The Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, at 319–337 East 74th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, is a Neo-Byzantine-style Greek Orthodox church. [2] [3] It serves as the national cathedral of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, and as the episcopal seat of Archbishop Elpidophoros of America. [2] [3]