St. George Ukrainian Catholic Church

6 Taras Shevchenko Place | also 7 Taras Shevchenko Place, 4 Taras Shevchenko Place, 5 Taras Shevchenko Place | East Village | built 1976

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1905
Fr. Joseph Chaplinsky founds the Ukrainian Catholic parish
Fr. Joseph Chaplinsky founded St. George's parish in 1905, the city's first Ukrainian Greek Catholic congregation. It first worshipped in the basement of St. Brigid's before moving into a converted former Swedish Baptist chapel on East 20th Street.
Source: Wikipedia
1911
The parish moves into a former Methodist church on Seventh Street
In 1911 the growing congregation relocated into the 1836 Seventh Street Methodist Episcopal Church on this site, then added a squat tower topped with five onion domes to mark the building as an Eastern-rite Catholic church.
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1978
April 23
St. George's current Byzantine-style church is consecrated
After the older church was razed in 1976, the parish built a new $2.5 million Byzantine Revival sanctuary designed by architect Apollinaire Osadca, seating 1,000 worshippers. The building was consecrated on April 23, 1978.
Source: Wikipedia
1980
Andrij Dobriansky leads the church choir for three decades
Metropolitan Opera principal artist Andrij Dobriansky directed St. George's choir from 1980 to 2012, anchoring the music at a parish that served as a cultural and political hub for generations of Ukrainian New Yorkers.
Source: Wikipedia

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