Greek Orthodox church at World Trade Center reopens at last
St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, right, sits next to ground zero in New York, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022. After a rebuilding process that lasted more than two decades, the Greek Orthodox church that was destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks has reopened at the World Trade Center site. The St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine, designed by architect Santiago Calatrava, now overlooks the Trade Center memorial pools from an elevated park.
The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the World Trade Center, battled in court over where the new church would be built before agreeing to Liberty Park just south of the main trade center site. Before the start of a service, a woman examines some of the details at St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in New York, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022. After a rebuilding process that lasted more than two decades, the Greek Orthodox church that was destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks has reopened at the World Trade Center site. The St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine, designed by architect Santiago Calatrava, now overlooks the Trade Center memorial pools from an elevated park.
The iconography inside was painted by a monk from Xenophontos Monastery in Mount Athos, Greece, known as Father Loukas. The Rev. Alexander Karloutsos, the former vicar general of the archdiocese and a key player in the rebuilding of the church from the beginning, said Father Loukas was asked not just to create traditional icons but “to show the reality of Sept. 11.”
“I regret I couldn’t be there,” Calatrava said from his office in Zurich. “I think it became a very beautiful piece. I’m very proud.”
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