SAINT GEORGE'S UKRAINIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH is in an
East Village neighborhood on the Lower East Side (around Houston Street and
Third Avenue) which was settled by Ukrainians in the 1870s and became known as “Little
Ukraine.” It is designed in classical Ukrainian Byzantine architecture and is located at East Seventh Street
(between Second and Third Avenues). The
original church was built in 1905 at 20th
Street and First
Avenue. Today, St. George’s operates an elementary and high school.
The church complex includes a rectory, a
convent and apartment buildings. Diagonally
across the street from the church is McSorley's Old Ale House (1854) one of the
oldest and most famous bars in New York City. |