![]() Developers repeatedly attempted to buy the church’s land for years. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church sits in a parking lot in lower Manhattan. It was the only place of worship leveled by the attacks. 11, 2001, the collapse of the buildings also destroyed the church. Nicholas an unwelcome place in history when hijackers crashed planes into the twin towers on Sept. “People found it like an oasis.”īecause of lower Manhattan’s growth, the church was overshadowed for more than a quarter-century of its existence by two towering neighbors - the twin towers of the World Trade Center, which were built in the 1960s. Alex Karloutsos, the vicar general of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. “It was a little church on a lonely parking lot, and it was always open,” said the Rev. Eventually, the church, nowhere near as tall as the buildings nearby, stood alone, surrounded only by a parking lot. Developers attempted to acquire the property, but the church stayed put at 155 Cedar St., and became a familiar place for people who worked in the area. ![]() Over the years, the neighborhood around the church changed, from surrounding row houses to high rises. The church started out in 1916 in a small row house that used to be a tavern. ![]() Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church stood out amid the hustle and bustle of lower Manhattan. Editor’s note: This story contains sensitive imagery of the Sept.
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