Chasing Domes in the East Village, Part Two

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Sep 30, 2023
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We left off on the corner of 10th St. and Avenue A and now we'll head down a few blocks south to 7th St. to finish our tour in Manhattan's East Village.

5. St. Mary Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Church at 121 East 7th St., New York, NY 10009 (map link).

The buiding was constructed as a home in the mid 1840s and was purchased and revoated into church in 1902 by the Hungarian Reformed Church. In 1917 it sold to an Orthodox group who named it Holy Resurrection Church and was under Evdokim Meschersky, the self-titled “Archbishop of the Ecclesiastic Consistory of the Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church, and the Archbishop of the Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church, and the Archbishop of the Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church of North America.”

In 1935 it was sold again to Orthodox Christians and it became the home of Sts. Peter and Paul Russian Orthodox Church. In 1961 it was sold again and became St. Mary’s American Orthodox Greek Catholic Church. While the church appears to closed, it was most recently under the Carpatho Russian Orthodox Diocese of Johnstown, PA. For a while it was a under the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the 1980s.

6. St. George Ukrainian Catholic Church at 30 E 7th St, New York, NY 10003 (map link).

St. George's is the landmark Ukrainian Catholic parish of the Northeast if not the Ukrainian Diaspora in the US. It traces its history to 1890 when the first Liturgy was celebrated at St. Brigid's on Avenue B-- on the southeast side of Tomkins Square Park. The community purchased a Swedish church on East 20th Street and First Avenue and then a Methodist Church in 1911 on its present site. The current church was dedicated in 1978 with over 5,000 in attendance.

7. St. Brigid Roman Catholic Church at 119 Avenue B, New York, NY 10009 (map link).

This Roman Catholic church was completed in 1850. During the Civil War, its pastor was chaplain to the famous Fighting 69th of the Thomas Meagher's Irish Brigide.

On October 10, 1890, St. Brigid is where the Ukrainian Catholic community in New York City held it's first Divine Liturgy.

8. Cathedral of the Holy Virgin Protection - Orthodox Church of America at 59 E 2nd St, New York, NY 10003 (map link).

Olivet Memorial German Reformed Church was built in 1867 and has been an Orthodox church since 1943 however the Orthodox community traces its roots to 1870. At one point, this Cathedral was the Primatial Cathedral of the Metropolia which became The Orthodox Church in America (OCA). Today, it's the Cathedral parish of the OCA Diocese of New York and New Jersey.

Bonus Stop: The Catholic Worker's Maryhouse at 55 E 3rd St, New York, NY 10003 (map link).

Located a block north of the OCA Cathedral, Maryhouse was the longtime home of the Servant of God Dorothy Day. She reposed here in 1980 and will likely be canonized a Saint in due time.