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Greektown is a social and dining district on the Near West Side of Chicago, Illinois, with a large Greek population and influence. Learn about its origins, landmarks, festivals, restaurants and the National Hellenic Museum.
Learn about the history, architecture, and milestones of this Ukrainian church in Chicago, founded in 1956 and consecrated in 1977. The church has thirteen gold domes, a Byzantine iconostasis, and a grotto shrine to Our Lady of Hoshiv.
The Metropolis of Chicago is a metropolis of the Greek Orthodox Church in the North-Central Midwest, United States, with its see in Annunciation Cathedral in Chicago. It consists of sixty-one parishes in six states and has a history dating back to 1923.
On August 3, 1931, Rev. Peter Semkoff officially petitioned Theophilus, Archbishop of Chicago, the local bishop of the Russian Metropolia, for his permission to establish a new parish in the Gage Park area of Chicago (2410 W 53rd St. Chicago, IL 60632), to be eventually known as St. Peter and St. Paul Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church.
In 1957, Fr. Ivan Kohut launched a campaign to build a new church. Bishop Joseph Michael Schmondiuk of Stamford dedicated the new Church on 20 November 1960. The church building features stained glass windows and bells imported from Italy. A fresco of the Last Supper by Ukrainian-American painter Mychajlo Dmytrenko adorns the apse. [2]
The Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saint Nicholas of Chicago is a Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church ecclesiastical territory or eparchy of the Catholic Church in the whole Western United States and Midwest (except Ohio), Alaska, and Hawaii.
Saints Volodymyr and Olha Ukrainian Catholic Church, Chicago, IL. Sts. Volodymyr and Olha Church is a Ukrainian Greek Catholic parish church in Chicago, US. The church building is one of the landmarks of the Ukrainian Village, a historic district in northwest central Chicago. It is known for its distinctive architecture and art work.
By then they had raised enough money to buy their first church from a Danish Protestant congregation at Bishop and Superior streets. The property at Oakley Boulevard and Rice Street was purchased in 1913 and the present church was completed in 1915. [2] Property on Higgins Road was purchased for a cemetery in 1925 for $10,000.00. [3]