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Saints Kyril & Metodi Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Diocesan Cathedral
Saints Kyril & Metodi Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Diocesan Cathedral, also known as SS. Kjril & Methodi Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Diocesan Cathedral, is the cathedral church and headquarters of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church Diocese of the United States, Canada, and Australia.〔(Saints Kyril & Metodi Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Diocesan Cathedral Official Website ) (Accessed 24 Jan 2011)〕〔(Bulgarian Patriarchate ), website of the Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Diocese of the USA, Canada, and Australia, accessed January 28, 2011〕〔 The church is located at 552 West 50th Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues, Hell's Kitchen / Clinton, Manhattan, New York City.
==Building==
The brick three-story cathedral church was built as a Protestant church.〔St. Cyril & Methodius & St. Raphael Church Official Website; Parish History "crkvanyc.org" (Refuge on 50th Street ) (Accessed 24 Jan 2011)〕 The founding congregation was Lutheran. It was sold to the Church of St. Clemens Mary (New York City) at some point thereafter.〔David W. Dunlap, ''(From Abyssinian to Zion: A Guide to Manhattan's Houses of Worship )''. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004.) p. 221.〕 It had been abandoned with its pews and organ for some time when the Croatian Catholic Parish of Saints Cyril and Methodius rented the building from its landlord for $100 per month.〔 The parish was dedicated to the Slavic apostles, Saints Cyril and Methodius, who had recently been proclaimed the apostles of Europe. During a five-week spendthrift renovation that converted the Protestant church into a Catholic one, "German Franciscans from 31st St. donated an altar, two statues, a chalice, books, garments for mass, and $100 for other necessities.〔 The Slovak parish from Brooklyn and the German church on 49th St. and 9th Avenue donated additional apparel and other necessities for God’s service."〔 The opening ceremony took place on Sunday, Nov. 16, 1913, and by early 1914, $21,000 was collected to purchase the church building.〔 Internally as determined from historical photographs, the renovated design appears to have a double-height sanctuary over a ground floor.〔 At the time that the Croatian Catholic parish occupied the building, there were about 4,000 people in its congregation.〔Remigius Lafort, S.T.D., Censor, ''(The Catholic Church in the United States of America. Volume 3. )'' (New York City: The Catholic Editing Company, 1914), p.323.〕
In 1974, the Catholic congregation opted to move into the grander (and emptier) St. Raphael's Church forming the merged parishes of Church of Sts. Cyril & Methodius and St. Raphael.〔
After 1974, the building was transferred to the Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Church to serve as its cathedral. The Slavic patron saint dedication was retained.〔"(SHOWPIECE FOR BULGARIAN-AMERICANS )," ''New York Times'', May 13, 1984, "On weekends and in their free time after work, a dozen volunteers - including a psychiatrist, a building superintendent and a poet - have worked countless hours transforming a dilapidated church on the West Side of Manhattan into the showpiece of Bulgarian-American life in the New York metropolitan area. Headed by a team of three artists who worked more than 70 hours a week on the project for the last two years, the group painted nearly every square inch of the interior of the St. Kiril and Metodi Eastern Orthodox Church in vibrant colors and brilliant gold leaf. The interior, niches and all, is covered with floral arrangements and luminescent portraits of Jesus, the Virgin Mary and Bulgarian saints - popular motifs in Bulgarian churches. Some of the work was painted directly onto the plaster walls. The rest was done on panels in the Lafayette Street studio of Anton Russev, the 43-year-old Bulgarian immigrant who designed and financed the project...."〕
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