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December 8, 2022

$95M Greek Orthodox church opens at World Trade Center

  • The building was designed by Santiago Calatrava in the style of historic Byzantine structures.
    • By KAREN MATTHEWS
    Associated Press

    Photo copyright Alan Karchmer for Santiago Calatrava [enlarge]
    The church is covered in marble from the same Pentelic vein in Greece where the Parthenon’s stones were quarried.

    NEW YORK — More than two decades after a tiny Greek Orthodox church in lower Manhattan was destroyed by the falling south tower of the World Trade Center, that church's far grander replacement opened to the public this week in an elevated park overlooking the rebuilt trade center's memorial plaza.


     
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