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Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral (Chicago)

Year
1910
Style
Byzantine
City
Chicago, IL
Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral (Chicago)
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The Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral is the mother church of the Metropolis of Chicago, built in 1910 by a Greek immigrant community organized in the city since 1892. Modeled after a cathedral in Athens, it is the oldest surviving Byzantine-style church building in Chicago and today counts about 400 member families.

the building

Funding a cathedral. The community paid $18,000 for its LaSalle Street lot in 1909 and spent about $100,000 completing the building in 1910. During the Great Depression, parishioners organized fundraising drives to keep the church solvent, and at one point the entire building was raised from its foundation and moved back to accommodate the widening of LaSalle Street.

the style

Built in the Byzantine style after a cathedral in Athens, the Annunciation is the oldest building in Chicago constructed in the form of a Byzantine church.

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