Centennial Celebration of the Transfiguration Cathedral in Brooklyn

1916 - 2016

On September 24 and 25, 2016, the Orthodox Cathedral of the Transfiguration of Our Lord in Williamsburg, Brooklyn celebrated its 100th anniversary of the blessing of the building’s cornerstone. The Liturgy was concelebrated by His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon, His Eminence Archbishop Michael, and other clergy, deacons, subdeacons, and many altar servers, and was attended by many laypeople.

It was on April 5, 1908 that the first service was celebrated by Saint Alexander Hotovitzky, then Dean of New York’s Saint Nicholas Cathedral, marking the establishment of the parish—initially dedicated to Saint Vladimir. Work began on the building in 1916 after His Eminence, the late Archbishop Evdokim blessed the cornerstone and renamed the parish in honor of the Great Feast of the Transfiguration. In 1969, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the cathedral a city landmark. In recognition of its historical and architectural significance, it also was listed on the National Register of Historical Places by the US Department of the Interior on April 16, 1980.