Abstract: The edifice of St. Mary’s Byzantine Catholic Church is a distinctive blend of Byzantine-Slavonic aesthetics and high modernist architecture, a setting that proved appropriate for its most famous parishioner, Andy Warhol. St. Mary’s is a parish of the Byzantine Catholic Metropolia in the United States, part of the tradition known globally as the Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church. The development of the Greek Catholic tradition is primordially tied to Ruthenians and especially the sub-group of Carpatho-Rusyns. The journey and layered identity of Carpatho-Rusyns and their Church have been indelibly shaped by grand historical turns in Central Europe and ecclesiastical developments in the United States.
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Abstract: The edifice of St. Mary’s Byzantine Catholic Church is a distinctive blend of Byzantine-Slavonic aesthetics and high modernist architecture, a setting that proved appropriate for its most famous parishioner, Andy Warhol. St. Mary’s is a parish of the Byzantine Catholic Metropolia in the United States, part of the tradition known globally as the Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church. The development of the Greek Catholic tradition is primordially tied to Ruthenians and especially the sub-group of Carpatho-Rusyns. The journey and layered identity of Carpatho-Rusyns and their Church have been indelibly shaped by grand historical turns in Central Europe and ecclesiastical developments in the United States.
Full photo-essay on St. Mary’s: https://medium.com/the-photographic-muslim/st-marys-byzantine-catholic-church-a127e93b95de