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August 4, 2020

Work resumes on $86M project to replace church destroyed in 9/11 attack

  • The new church was designed by Santiago Calatrava.
    • By KAREN MATTHEWS
    Associated Press

    NEW YORK — After a three year halt due to financial problems, work resumed Monday on a Greek Orthodox church being built to replace one destroyed in the attack on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.

    Archbishop Elpidophoros, the leader of the Greek Orthodox church in America, stood on a balcony on the unfinished church and used holy water and sprigs of basil to bless the construction of the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine at the World Trade Center.


     
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