WITH SYMPATHY: Serbian Cathedral in Manhattan destroyed on Pascha Sunday

Plus Sharing: further news: WITH SYMPATHY: St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Cathedral in Manhattan totally destroyed on Pascha Sunday    Inbox

Dan Everiss <oregdan@hotmail.com> Tue, May 3, 2016 at 12:35 PM Reply | Reply to all | Forward | Print | Delete | Show original *My apologies for all of the disgusting worldly advertising with this article. The internet is now overwhelmed with it,  and it is most annoying. To my mind, I refuse to consider buying anything so advertised. It is disgusting! All of us fellow Orthodox Christians give our sincerest sympathies to our Serbian Orthodox brothers and sisters,  in New York City and elsewhere,  in this terrible loss and tragedy, and as it occurred on Pascha Sunday!  This Cathedral  of St. Sava,  with mainly its parish family, its people-  [though clearly this structure was originally built as a heterodox Gothic-style  church],  was called,  'the first Serbian Orthodox Church in America, and on the east coast'. ...which perhaps is true,  or may not be? An historical note: When most of the very first Orthodox immigrants, of all ethnic nationalities,  arrived in America,  at different time frames in the past, they often obtained some older former and disused/abandoned Protestant or Catholic church buildings,  [ and often bought cheaply or in come cases  simply gifted/FREE  to the new immigrants, as the original owners had no more use for them, and too because  they had sympathy for these new poor new-comers, these fellow Christians], as the new immigrants were too poor and struggling in their  initial adjusting  to their new country and its new strange English language, its new religious freedoms and its foreign ways & laws, and as they had to be looking for jobs and homes to live in, etc. at that early difficult time,  [ which all new immigrants to America have had to face],  to construct their new Orthodox-built  church buildings at first. Later, as they became more stable and prosperous, as they began to 'fit in', they then started to design and build their own Orthodox-built  churches, usually in traditional Orthodox styles of architecture. However, in America today, many Orthodox parishes, especially in urban areas, still worship in those older, originally heterodox built, old church buildings...which when they are inside of the major cities, as especially is the case in downtown New York City, such churches often sit on quite valuable in dollar value, property. The downtown Manhattan  part of New York City, is very valuable land! Rd. Daniel Everiss in Oregon  http://video.foxnews.com/v/4874234214001/historic-new-york-city-cathedral-destroyed-by-fire/?intcmp=hpvid1#sp=show-clips