From Jewish Business News-The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in New York has made a deal with New York real estate developers, the Brodsky Organization, to develop a vacant portion of the north side of its cathedral property for the building of 330,000 square feet of new apartment buildings.
The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine is one of the world’s largest churches and it sits in the Morningside Heights neighbourhood of upper Manhattan, beside Columbia University. Its full name is actually the “Cathedral Church of Saint John: The Great Divine in the City and Diocese of New York”, and it is the cathedral for the Episcopal Diocese of New York, the American version of the Anglican communion.
Building of the cathedral commenced in 1892 after the head of the Diocese at the time, one Bishop Henry Potter, called for a building to rival that of the Catholic St. Patricks Cathedral. It then took decades to complete, not actually opening end-to-end until 1941 in the week before Pearl Harbour. It rivals Liverpool Cathedral for the title of the largest Anglican church in the world, even though it is even now still not entirely complete as portions remains unfinished.
More here-
http://jewishbusinessnews.com/2013/10/07/cathedral-of-saint-john-the-divine-in-new-york-selects-brodsky-organization-to-build-428-apartments-beside-their-church/
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"the Episcopal Diocese of New York, the American version of the Anglican communion"
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Big John will always be special to me, if for no other reason than that I graduated inside it (Commencement Ceremony for Teachers College, Columbia University, in 2004). Also, my late mother and I squeezed in almost exactly 23 years ago (1990), for their St Francis Day Blessing of the Animals (along w/ the elephant and camel!)
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