St. Joseph's Chapel (New York)

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St. Joseph's Chapel: Rise glass wall by Guy Kemper (Photo: Robert Benson)

St. Joseph's Chapel , Battery Park NY, is the Roman Catholic Memorial Church at Ground Zero , Manhattan and was rebuilt to remember the victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks . The chapel is not far from the Hudson River (385 S End Ave, New York, NY 10280) and belongs to the oldest Catholic parish in New York, St. Peter.

The chapel was badly damaged on September 11, 2001; the furniture carried outside fell victim to the rain days later, only the altar and some liturgical objects could be brought to safety. After initially thinking of leaving the place desolate, it was decided to rebuild the chapel as a memorial. It was inaugurated again on May 22, 2005.

The small church was built as a transept and equipped with sculptures and other plastic works by modern artists: Brett Slavin (Our Lady of Guadalupe), John Collier (St. Joseph), Wiktor Szostalo (glass sculpture: Christ Torso ), Guy Kemper (glass window Rise ), Sr. Cecelia (icon of St. John and St. Paul) and Christopher Cosma and Denise Amses (glass sculpture).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ St. Joseph's in the list of 9/11 memorials. ( Memento of the original from September 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / 911memorials.org
  2. ↑ Brett Slavin (English homepage) lives and works near New York.
  3. ↑ Article on the sculpture by John Collier (English) ( Memento of the original from December 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.episcopalchurch.org
  4. ↑ Wiktor Szoltalo (* 1953) comes from Lithuania , lived in Poland and as a political refugee since 1983 in St. Louis , Missouri.
  5. ↑ The window wall was made at Derix- Taunusstein with Lamberts glass.
  6. ↑ website of the artist AMSES / Cosma in Brooklyn NY.

Coordinates: 40 ° 42 ′ 40.6 "  N , 74 ° 0 ′ 57.3"  W.