Monday, September 12, 2011

Rebuilding a church at Ground Zero with Red Tape

Ten years after it became the only house of worship destroyed by the terrorist attack on New York City, the tiny St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, which used to stand just south of the South Tower, is far from being rebuilt. The saga of its on and off reconstruction, which bears a great significance for Orthodox Christians in the United States and elsewhere, also stands as a symbol to the bureaucratic, technical and political difficulties surrounding the construction at Ground Zero.








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Ria Novosti