Posted on 04/29/2017 6:33:44 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Parishioners at a New York City chapel that sheltered 9/11 first responders are praying for a miracle to save it from falling victim itself to the prosperity of its resurgent neighborhood.
St. Joseph’s Chapel is living on archdiocese subsidies after the rent for the relatively small space tripled in 2014 to $264,000 a year.
“If it should disappear and become a Gap or something — nothing against Gap, but it’s really not OK,” said Justine Cuccia, 55, a leader of the effort to save the tiny Roman Catholic chapel, part of the oldest Catholic parish in the state.
St. Joseph’s occupies ground-floor space in an apartment complex in Battery Park City, a community fewer than two blocks from the World Trade Center. The chapel is a mission of St. Peter’s Church about a half-mile away, where worshippers will be expected to go if St. Joseph’s closes. …
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The chapel came about in 1983.....not like it’s a hundred years old. Probably should have never even started.
This is the REAL secret to why the Catholic Church is pushing immigration.
They think it will help pay for their buildings.
It won’t.
Why not give it to NYC as a historical landmark?
They just rent space....
I don’t think there is anything historic about this chapel. It doesn’t appear to be the iconic church you are likely thinking of...but rather just the ground floor of a multifloor apartment building.
[the iconic church]
Thanks for the clarification. I thought it was the iconic church across from Ground Zero.
The article is very unclear about this point...as if the writer wants the reader to assume its the actual church building.
That is St Paul’s (Episcopal) which is a chapel of Trinity Church Wall Street (Episcopal) which is about five blocks south of St Paul’s.
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