The Cathedral of St. George Historic District encompasses a historic church complex at 517-523-525 East Broadway in
South Boston, Massachusetts
South Boston is a densely populated neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, located south and east of the Fort Point Channel and abutting Dorchester Bay. South Boston, colloquially known as Southie, has undergone several demographic transformati ...
. The church building was designed by Boston architect
Samuel J. F. Thayer and was built in 1872 to house a Unitarian congregation. The polychrome Gothic Revival structure was acquired in 1949 by the
Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese of the
Orthodox Church in America
The Orthodox Church in America (OCA) is an Eastern Orthodox Christian denomination, Christian church based in North America. The OCA is partly recognized as Autocephaly, autocephalous and consists of more than 700 parishes, missions, commun ...
.
The complex also includes two brick houses, 517 and 525 East Broadway, which were built about the same time as the church, and were owned by the Unitarian congregation.
The complex was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 1998.
See also
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Saint George: Devotions, traditions and prayers
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References
External links
the Cathedral's web site
Albanian-American culture in Massachusetts
Albanian-American history
Churches completed in 1868
19th-century Eastern Orthodox church buildings
Historic districts in Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Eastern Orthodox churches in Massachusetts
Churches in Boston
South Boston
National Register of Historic Places in Boston
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
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