St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine Presents Young Adults Let's Talk: Peacemaking in a Divided World
St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine at the World Trade Center presents the Young Adults Let's Talk: Peacemaking in a Divided World. Join us for an inspiring discussion about finding peace amidst troubling times with V. Rev. J. Sergius Halvorsen, Assistant Professor of Homiletics and Rhetoric & Director of the Doctor of Ministry Program at St. Vladimir's Seminary.
Read MoreJanuary 12, 2024
Saint Nicholas First Annual Christmas Carols December 21, 2023
As the magic of the holiday season draws near, we extend a warm invitation for you to join us in creating cherished memories during a delightful morning of Christmas caroling on December 21st! It's an ideal opportunity to unite and share the joy, warmth, and festive spirit.
Read MoreDecember 13, 2023
New York, NY (June 27, 2023) -- On Monday, June 26, 2023, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, made a historic visit to the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine at the World Trade Center in New York.
Read MoreJune 27, 2023
Saint Nicholas Shrine Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine Time Lapse Video
Over 20 years since the original was destroyed during 9/11 attacks, the new St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine opened in lower Manhattan in December 2022. Read More
January 13, 2023
My beloved Deacon John, Today as we observe, with all the magnificence the Church can muster, the Nativity according to the Flesh of our Lord, God and Savior Jesus Christ, we also celebrate your birth into the Holy Priesthood. Here at the reborn Saint Nicholas – restored now as a National Shrine – you receive the first ordination the Shrine has ever witnessed. This is a great blessing and significant privilege for you. Read More
December 25, 2022
The Christmas Gift of the St. Nicholas National Shrine
Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ, I can barely express my gratitude, enthusiasm, and unmitigated joy for the opening to regular worship and visitation of our precious Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine, which occurred on the Feastday of the Wonderworker of Myra, December 5-6. Read More
December 21, 2022
The Saint Nicholas National Shrine Opening for Worship with Thanskgiving
With tremendous gratitude to The Friends of Saint Nicholas for their constancy and their faith, we enter into the Season of Thanksgiving preparing to commence the regular liturgical life of the Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine on the Feastday of the Wonderworker of Myra. What a cause for thankfulness, that after twenty-two long years, we are now ready to open the doors to the Shrine for all the world to behold our faith, our traditions, and our beauty. Read More
November 17, 2022
St. Nicholas National Shrine - Monthly Newsletter - October 2022
From the first days after the horrific attacks on 9/11, there was mournful dread about the ashes that littered downtown New York, as if all joy in the world had been reduced to rubble with the destruction of the Twin Towers. The loss of life was so horrendous, as it says in the Book of Lamentations, that the entire Nation and the world sat in silence, dust and ashes covered our heads; we were girt with the sackcloth of grief, and our heads were bowed to the ground (Lamentations 2:10). Read More
October 18, 2022
St. Nicholas Shrine Newsletter - August 2022
Deat Sisters and Brothers in Christ, With the finishing touches being put on our Saint Nicholas National Shrine, and the installation of the full program of Iconography, I would like to offer this reflection and appreciation of the group of heroes who have made this monumental accomplishment possible: The Friends of St. Nicholas. Read More
August 18, 2022
We are the people of the Resurrection. The National Shrine is a symbol for all to behold of the victory of resurrection over death, of good over evil, of light over darkness, of peace and love over violence and hate. Read More
July 5, 2022
Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine March 2022 Newsletter
In this Newsletter, you will see for the first time a photograph of the completed icon (yet to be installed in the apse of the Church), known as the “Platytera Ton Ouranon” – “She Who is Wider than the Heavens.” The icon is thoroughly described in the article by Bishop Joachim of Amissos, but I want to share with you some thoughts about what this icon means for the Shrine and for New York City. Read More
March 30, 2022
After much thought and prayer, the Archdiocese, the Parish Council of Saint Nicholas, and The Friends of St. Nicholas, who have taken up the awesome responsibility for financing and overseeing the construction of the Shrine, have jointly decided that the Parish’s Holy Week will be celebrated this year as it has been in the past – in conjunction with a neighboring Parish. Read More
March 18, 2022
Friends of St. Nicholas February 2022 Newsletter
At the beginning of this month of February, we remembered in the Church the person and ministry of Saint Photios the Great, Patriarch of Constantinople (d. February 6, 891 AD). This brilliant Ecumenical Patriarch is famous for a multitude of reasons, but the one I want to highlight, vis-à-vis our National Shrine, is his commitment to spreading the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. His missionary zeal was truly apostolic, not a proselytizing chauvinism. And it is this spirit that our Saint Nicholas National Shrine will invoke for all who cross its holy threshold. Read More
February 17, 2022
The Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine at the World Trade Center has been named one of "The 9 Most Anticipated Architecture Projects Opening in 2022" by Galerie Magazine. Read More
January 22, 2022
St. Nicholas Shrine January 2022 Monthly Update
My Beloved Sisters and Brothers in Christ, Here at the commencement of the New Year of 2022 – which is the Centennial of our Greek Orthodox Church of America, we have once again celebrated the Great Feast of the Epiphany. Read More
January 18, 2022
Monthly Update - December 2021 --St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine
We have just concluded the Feast of the Holy Wonderworker of Myra, Saint Nicholas, who is the Patron of our National Shrine. On that blessed day, I presided over the Divine Liturgy in the Chapel of Saint Paul at the Archdiocese Headquarters, with the new Proïstamenos of the Parish, Father Andreas Vithoulkas, celebrating at the Holy Altar. Read More
December 22, 2021
While I had wanted to have this Divine Liturgy in the Shrine itself, so as to continue our journey to the full opening of the Church – inaugurated by the blessing of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew just last month – it was necessary for us to allow for construction to proceed apace. Read More
December 6, 2021
St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine - November 2021 Monthly Update
Could there have been a more fitting climax to the Apostolic Visit of His All Holiness, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to the United States than the “Opening of the Doors” service at the Saint Nicholas National Shrine, and the crowning of the Church with the Holy Cross? Read More
November 18, 2021
Saint Nicholas National Shrine on the Way to Completion
Saint Nicholas National Shrine is on the way to its completion, following the 20th Anniversary commemorations of 9/11. The interior of the Church is being finished in the coming months, as well as the decoration. Read More
October 12, 2021
September 2021 Saint Nicholas National Shrine Newsletter
We have gathered tonight, on this eve of September Eleventh, to pay our deepest respects and condolences to the families and friends of those who perished on that fateful day, twenty years ago. Children have grown up without parents, siblings are yet bereaved, and parents have passed on to life eternal, still gripped by the loss of sons and daughters. Read More
September 16, 2021