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St. George Coptic Orthodox Church, Nashville, Tennessee 2412 Foster Ave Nashville, TN 37210; St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church, Nashville, Tennessee 1931 Old Murfreesboro Pike, Nashville, TN 37217-3022; St. Mary Coptic Orthodox Church, Knoxville, Tennessee 1921 Sunny Ln, Knoxville, TN 37912
After the 1952 Coup d'Etat in Egypt, the Egyptian Economy began to stagnate, and more and more young Egyptians began seeking opportunities to study and work abroad. [5] In 1964, as the number of Copts grew in the United States, the first Coptic lay organization in the United States, the Coptic American Association (CAA) was founded.
Lists of Coptic church buildings cover church buildings that employ the Alexandrian Rite. They are organized by region or country. They are organized by region or country. Egypt which is where the Coptic religion began is listed in Africa, although Egypt is in Africa and in Asia.
However, not too long afterwards, the first parish in the States, St. Mark's Coptic Orthodox Church (Jersey City) was founded in the late 1960s and it is considered the first Coptic Orthodox Church, parish, and church building in North America, if not, the Western Hemisphere. Decades later, Mexico had a growing Coptic Orthodox community of its own.
St. Mary & St. Antonios Church, being one of the oldest Coptic Orthodox churches in North America, started in March 1972, [5] and is the first Coptic Orthodox parish in New York [6] as well as the third Coptic parish in the US, the first two being St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church in Jersey City and St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church in Los Angeles.
Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow: 1685 1961 Sleepy Hollow, NY: Dutch Reformed Church: Old Quaker Meeting House of Queens: 1694–1719 1967 Queens, New York City, NY: Society of Friends: Merion Friends Meeting House: c. 1695 –1715 1999 Merion Station, PA: Society of Friends: Holy Trinity Church: 1698 1961 Wilmington, DE: Georgian: Church of ...
Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of North and South America and the British Isles. Abbey of the Holy Name, West Milford, New Jersey (Western Rite). Church of the Genuine Orthodox Christians of Greece. Monastery of the Holy Ascension, Woodstock, New York. Metropolitan Demetrios. St. Gregory Palamas Monastery, Etna, California.
The church added a basement in the 1950s, and added the new church in 1997 (keeping the old church in its location). As of October 27, 2021, they will celebrated their 183rd Anniversary being the 6th oldest church in Illinois, 49th oldest in the United States and the 224th oldest in the world.