Cathedral of the Holy Virgin Protection

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Welcome to the Cathedral of the Holy Virgin Protection and Chapel of St. Innocent of Irkutsk, one of the main places of Orthodox worship in New York City.

We are a warm and welcoming community with a great diversity of people, young and old, native New Yorkers, transplants, and immigrants. We are united in a community that believes that we can experience God's love and sustaining presence in our lives. We seek to acquire the Holy Spirit through the teachings of Jesus Christ in the Scriptures and the the life and activity of the Church as His continuing presence in the world.

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Interior of the Cathedral

Interior

Sanctuary

Altar Table

Pentecost

‘O strange Orthodox Church, so poor and so weak, at the same time so
traditional and yet so free, so archaic and yet so alive, so
ritualistic and yet so personally mystical, Church where the pearl of
great price of the Gospel is preciously preserved, sometimes beneath a
layer of dust — Church that has so often proved incapable of action,
yet which knows, as no other, how to sing the joy of Easter.’

– Fr Lev Gillet, ‘A Monk of the Eastern Church’

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Wednesday, May 14th
6:00 9th Hour/Vespers

Friday, May 16th
6:00 9th Hour/Vespers

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Contact Information

Cathedral of the Holy Virgin Protection
59 East Second Street
New York, NY 10003
Phone/Fax: (212) 677-4664

Email: ccalin@nyc.rr.com