St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church
The St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church was a church built around 1832 in Manhattan , New York City . It was destroyed in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 in the USA . The church and the Deutsche Bank Building were the only two buildings not belonging to the World Trade Center complex that were destroyed or demolished due to the massive damage. No one was in the church at the time of the collapse.
history
The building, erected in 1832, originally housed apartments and a restaurant . Greek immigrants bought the building for US $ 25,000 in 1916 and converted it into a church that regularly held Greek Orthodox services from 1922 . The parish was part of the Archdiocese of America of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople . In the church there were some sacred objects that Tsar Nicholas had donated to the community.
After the church was destroyed, after long negotiations in 2011, a piece of land was found at another point in the complex, on which a new building is being built according to plans by Santiago Calatrava .
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Coordinates: 40 ° 42 ′ 37 ″ N , 74 ° 0 ′ 50 ″ W.