Greek Orthodox Church of St Nicholas in Liverpool

The Greek Orthodox Church of St Nicholas is a Grade II

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in Toxteth,

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, situated at the junction of Berkley Street and Princes Road. Built in the

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style, it was completed in 1870. The architects were W. & J. Hay and the church was built by Henry Sumners. It is an enlarged version of St Theodore's church in

Constantinople la, Constantinopolis ota, قسطنطينيه , alternate_name = Byzantion (earlier Greek name), Nova Roma ("New Rome"), Miklagard/Miklagarth (Old Norse), Tsargrad ( Slavic), Qustantiniya ( Arabic), Basileuousa ("Queen of Cities"), Megalopolis ( ...

(now converted into the

Vefa Kilise Mosque Church-Mosque of Vefa ( tr, Vefa Kilise Camii, meaning "the church mosque of Vefa", to distinguish it from the other ''kilise camiler'' of Istanbul: also known as ''Molla Gürani Camii'' after the name of his founder) is a former Eastern Orthodox ...

). St. Nicholas' was built in the Liverpool neighbourhood of Toxteth in a period when Liverpool's magnates were filling Toxteth with opulent mansions. The church stands in a neighbourhood of substantial homes and in a cluster of houses of worship designed to advertise the wealth and status of a group of captains of industry that was remarkably ethnically diverse, by the standards of Victorian England. Immediately adjacent to St. Nicholas are the Princes Road Synagogue and an early French gothic, Welsh Presbyterian Church. The exterior is extremely ornate, featuring arches within arches, done in alternating bands of white stone and red brick. There is a row of three domes on the portico, and a fourth dome over the nave, all raised on drums. The interior, with white marble columns and Byzantine capitals, is surprisingly plain compared with the exterior.

Images of the interior

File:Nave of the Greek Orthodox Church of St Nicholas, Toxteth 2.jpg, Nave as seen from the balcony File:Central dome of the Greek Orthodox Church of St Nicholas, Toxteth 2.jpg, View of the roof and central dome File:Pulpit of the Greek Orthodox church of St Nicholas, Toxteth 1.jpg, Pulpit, halfway up the wall of the north aisle File:Iconostasis of the Greek Othodox church of St Nicholas 2.jpg, Central portion of the ''iconostasis'' or screen, showing the Beautiful Doors File:Sanctuary of Greek Orthodox Church of St Nicholas.jpg, Sanctuary beyond the Beautiful Doors

External links

*https://web.archive.org/web/20041105170007/http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/bigpic/bigpics28.htm *https://web.archive.org/web/20070709204425/http://www.lookingatbuildings.org.uk/img/Liverpool.pdf

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Images of the interior

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