St. Illuminator’s Armenian Apostolic Cathedral
St. Illuminator's Armenian Apostolic Cathedral is a cathedral located at 221 East 27th Street between Second and Third avenues in the Kips Bay neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.Photo: Pandukht, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Church
- Denomination: Orthodox
- Description: Mother Cathedral of Eastern Prelacy of the Armenian Apostolic Church (Holy See of Cilicia)
- Also known as: “St. Illuminator”
- Address: 221 East 27th Street, New York, 10016
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Empire State Building and Flatiron Building.
Empire State Building
Photo: Dschwen, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The Empire State Building is a 102-story, supertall skyscraper in the Midtown South neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, United States. The building was designed in the Art Deco style by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon and constructed between 1930 and 1931. Empire State Building is situated 3,100 feet northwest of St. Illuminator’s Armenian Apostolic Cathedral.
Flatiron Building
Photo: Imelenchon, Public domain.
The Flatiron Building, originally the Fuller Building, is a 22-story, 285-foot-tall steel-framed triangular building at 175 Fifth Avenue in the eponymous Flatiron District neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. Flatiron Building is situated 2,600 feet west of St. Illuminator’s Armenian Apostolic Cathedral.
Madison Square Park
Park
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kips Bay and Rose Hill.
Kips Bay
Neighborhood
Photo: jim.henderson, GFDL.
Kips Bay, or Kip's Bay, is a neighborhood on the east side of the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is roughly bounded by 34th Street to the north, the East River to the east, 23rd Street to the south, and Third Avenue to the west.
Rose Hill
Neighborhood
Rose Hill is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, between the neighborhoods of Murray Hill to the north and Gramercy Park to the south, Kips Bay to the east, the Flatiron District to the southwest, and NoMad to the northwest.
NoMad
Neighborhood
Photo: Beyond My Ken, CC BY-SA 3.0.
NoMad, also known as Madison Square North, is a neighborhood centered on the Madison Square North Historic District in the borough of Manhattan in New York City.
St. Illuminator’s Armenian Apostolic Cathedral
- Categories: building, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Manhattan, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.74108° or 40° 44′ 28″ northLongitude
-73.98012° or 73° 58′ 48″ westHeight
48 feet (15 metres)Open location code
87G8P2R9+CXOpenStreetMap ID
way 264763009OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap feature
building=churchOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=orthodoxWikidata ID
Q13054782
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Russian—“St. Illuminator’s Armenian Apostolic Cathedral” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كاتدرائية القديس غريغوريوس المنور”
- Armenian: “Սուրբ Գրիգոր Լուսավորիչ տաճար”
- Bulgarian: “Катедралата Григорий Просветител”
- French: “cathédrale Grégoire l’Illuminateur”
- French: “Cathédrale Grégoire l’Illuminateur”
- German: “Gregor-der-Erleuchter-Kathedrale”
- Persian: “کلیسای جامع گریگوری روشنگر”
- Russian: “Храм Святого Григория Просветителя”
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