News for our Greek Orthodox Friends... (church, quote, baptize, trinity)
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It seems that a lot of people missed that a Greek Orthodox Church was buried by the debris of Two WTC on 9/11. It was totally destroyed. They recovered very little.
A long lawsuits later, the construction started a couple of years ago, and the much bigger, multi-million-dollar building has been taking shape.
I was watching them build the base of it outside my office window before I retired earlier this year. The Vehicle Security Center for the World Trade Center complex is underground in that area, with a portion of that facility above ground. An elevated park sits on top of the VSC, and St. Nicholas Church is within that elevated park. It will be a much larger facility than the one they had before, which was an old, four-story building that had once been a tavern.
Thanks for the article. I was aware of Trinity Chapel being damaged (for example their historic pipe organ choked on the dust, and was supplanted by a digital replacement; I've often wondered how many millions in damage were done all over that area by the pervasive grit). But I had not heard of this church.
Thanks for the article. I was aware of Trinity Chapel being damaged (for example their historic pipe organ choked on the dust, and was supplanted by a digital replacement; I've often wondered how many millions in damage were done all over that area by the pervasive grit). But I had not heard of this church.
Yes, the pipe organ, that was very sad.
Not to be picky, but yeah, to be picky. That is Trinity Church, the neo-Gothic structure at the foot of Wall Street, several blocks from the WTC that got the dust sucked into its pipes. There was a rehearsal going on that day and the organ was on and the pipes open, and once everything started happening, no one thought to close them.
St. Paul's Chapel, which is part of Trinity Church, is the oldest public building still in use in Manhattan, celebrating its 250th anniversary this year. St. Paul's is directly across Church Street from the WTC. Amazingly, it sustained very little damage on 9/11, although trees in its churchyard were damaged. St. Paul's was on the side of the WTC complex away from the towers, so while it got dust and debris, it did not get smashed by thousands of tons of building falling on it as St. Nicholas Church did. It was used as a feeding/sleeping/staging area for people working on the pile in the early days, and it is now a museum/memorial of sorts of those days.
I've been to many and was baptized and confirmed in one - an Eastern Rite Ukrainian Catholic Church - pretty much the same deal as Greek Orthodox.
Lots of chanting, heavy robes, dense incense and gold leaf everywhere.
I used to work with a Ukrainian Eastern Rite Catholic. I once mistakenly referred to him as Russian Orthodox, and he cheerfully but firmly corrected me. His parents had fled the Soviet Union when he was eight years old.
Not to be picky, but yeah, to be picky. That is Trinity Church, the neo-Gothic structure at the foot of Wall Street, several blocks from the WTC that got the dust sucked into its pipes. There was a rehearsal going on that day and the organ was on and the pipes open, and once everything started happening, no one thought to close them.
St. Paul's Chapel, which is part of Trinity Church, is the oldest public building still in use in Manhattan, celebrating its 250th anniversary this year. St. Paul's is directly across Church Street from the WTC. Amazingly, it sustained very little damage on 9/11, although trees in its churchyard were damaged. St. Paul's was on the side of the WTC complex away from the towers, so while it got dust and debris, it did not get smashed by thousands of tons of building falling on it as St. Nicholas Church did. It was used as a feeding/sleeping/staging area for people working on the pile in the early days, and it is now a museum/memorial of sorts of those days.
Thanks for the correction.
I wondered why the organ's blower happened to be running at the time of the attack. How unfortunate.
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