https://orthodoxwiki.org/index.php?title=St._Sava_Cathedral_(New_York,_New_York)&feed=atom&action=historySt. Sava Cathedral (New York, New York) - Revision history2024-03-29T09:28:56ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.30.0https://orthodoxwiki.org/index.php?title=St._Sava_Cathedral_(New_York,_New_York)&diff=124279&oldid=prevKatjuscha: /* Sources */ add'l source2016-07-18T22:21:58Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Sources: </span> add'l source</span></p>
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</table>Katjuschahttps://orthodoxwiki.org/index.php?title=St._Sava_Cathedral_(New_York,_New_York)&diff=124118&oldid=prevKatjuscha: references2016-06-13T17:26:09Z<p>references</p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>St. Sava Cathedral was not the only Orthodox Church to burn on Pascha 2016.  In Australia, the [[Church of the Resurrection (Sydney, New South Wales)|Church of the Resurrection]] - a parish of the [[Macedonian Orthodox Diocese of Australia and New Zealand]] - in the Rockdale area of Sydney, New South Wales was destroyed, and in Melbourne, Victoria, the [[Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia|Greek Orthodox]] [[Holy Church of the Annunciation of our Lady (Melbourne, Victoria)|Holy Church of the Annunciation of our Lady]] sustained heavy fire damage.  Furthermore, a massive fire broke out in a hotel next to the main chapel at the [[Valaam Monastery]] in northern Russia.  All of the buildings involved are historic structures.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>St. Sava Cathedral was not the only Orthodox Church to burn on Pascha 2016.  In Australia, the [[Church of the Resurrection (Sydney, New South Wales)|Church of the Resurrection]] - a parish of the [[Macedonian Orthodox Diocese of Australia and New Zealand]] - in the Rockdale area of Sydney, New South Wales was destroyed, and in Melbourne, Victoria, the [[Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia|Greek Orthodox]] [[Holy Church of the Annunciation of our Lady (Melbourne, Victoria)|Holy Church of the Annunciation of our Lady]] sustained heavy fire damage.  Furthermore, a massive fire broke out in a hotel next to the main chapel at the [[Valaam Monastery]] in northern Russia.  All of the buildings involved are historic structures.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>On Pascha Sunday, May 1, 2016, a fire was seen burning in St. Sava Cathedral.  The blaze quickly grew to a 4-alarm fire, and over 170 firefighters were dispatched to the scene to battle it.  <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">It remains unclear if any of the building can be saved, although initial </del>reports from May 2 <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">indicate </del>that the exterior walls may still be structurally stable<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">.  However</del>, the interior and roof were completely gutted.  Because the cause of the fire was not immediately clear, the Fire Department of New York initially treated this fire as 'suspicious', although this does not necessarily mean that they suspected arson.  Subsequently, FDNY has stated that they suspect a box containing partially-burned candles may have ignited if they were not all extinguished completely. (Because of the sheer number of candles in most Orthodox Churches, candles are very often looked to as the cause of fires.  While this is sometimes the case, in others, such as the fire at [[St. Nikola Church (Cudahy, Wisconsin)|St. Nikola Church in Cudahy, Wisconsin]] candles were initially thought to have ignited it, but it turned out to have been an electrical fire.)  The last people to leave St. Sava Cathedral are said to have left about 3pm; the fire was reported at 6:50pm; for their own safety firefighters were only able to go to the interior for a few minutes, seeing that the choir platform was already engulfed in flame. This led investigators to conclude that the fire had been burning, unnoticed, for some time despite the fact that a flea market had taken place next door in the hours between 3pm and when FDNY were called and there had been no reports of smoke or fire while that event was taking place.   </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>On Pascha Sunday, May 1, 2016, a fire was seen burning in St. Sava Cathedral.  The blaze quickly grew to a 4-alarm fire, and over 170 firefighters were dispatched to the scene to battle it.  <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Initial </ins>reports from <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>May 2<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] indicated </ins>that the exterior walls may still be structurally stable, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">but </ins>the interior and roof were completely gutted.  Because the cause of the fire was not immediately clear, the Fire Department of New York initially treated this fire as 'suspicious', although this does not necessarily mean that they suspected arson.  Subsequently, FDNY has stated that they suspect a box containing partially-burned candles may have ignited if they were not all extinguished completely. (Because of the sheer number of candles in most Orthodox Churches, candles are very often looked to as the cause of fires.  While this is sometimes the case, in others, such as the fire at [[St. Nikola Church (Cudahy, Wisconsin)|St. Nikola Church in Cudahy, Wisconsin]] candles were initially thought to have ignited it, but it turned out to have been an electrical fire.)  The last people to leave St. Sava Cathedral are said to have left about 3pm; the fire was reported at 6:50pm; for their own safety firefighters were only able to go to the interior for a few minutes, seeing that the choir platform was already engulfed in flame. This led investigators to conclude that the fire had been burning, unnoticed, for some time despite the fact that a flea market had taken place next door in the hours between 3pm and when FDNY were called and there had been no reports of smoke or fire while that event was taking place.   </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>On May 9, 2016, the ''New York Post'' reported that the Fire Department of New York had served a subpoena to Twitter to a user who seemed to be rejoicing in the destruction of the Cathedral - roughly an hour before the fire department was called.  Google also deemed the cathedral "permanently closed" approximately an hour after the fire department arrived on the scene, causing people who were using Google to find the website of St. Sava Cathedral to receive the message that their website may have been hacked.   </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>On May 9, 2016, the ''New York Post'' reported that the Fire Department of New York had served a subpoena to Twitter to a user who seemed to be rejoicing in the destruction of the Cathedral - roughly an hour before the fire department was called.  Google also deemed the cathedral "permanently closed" approximately an hour after the fire department arrived on the scene, causing people who were using Google to find the website of St. Sava Cathedral to receive the message that their website may have been hacked.   </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Irinej (Gavrilović) of Serbia|Patriarch Irinej]] of the Serbian Orthodox Church confirmed that he was receiving information from the Serbian Embassy in New York as to information about the fire.  The Serbian Embassy in Washington has requested through the United States State Department that all findings of the Fire Department of New York be available for review by the consulate.  Patriarch Irinej has also stated that he would like the American Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to take over the investigation of the fire, since, despite the speculation about candles, no FDNY investigator <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">has </del>come to inspect the site of the blaze in the first eight days.  According to reports, the first site investigators may not arrive until at least two weeks after the fire. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">  </del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Irinej (Gavrilović) of Serbia|Patriarch Irinej]] of the Serbian Orthodox Church confirmed that he was receiving information from the Serbian Embassy in New York as to information about the fire.  The Serbian Embassy in Washington has requested through the United States State Department that all findings of the Fire Department of New York be available for review by the consulate.  Patriarch Irinej has also stated that he would like the American Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to take over the investigation of the fire, since, despite the speculation about candles, no FDNY investigator <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">had </ins>come to inspect the site of the blaze in the first eight days.  According to reports, the first site investigators may not arrive until at least two weeks after the fire. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> An update posted to the St. Sava Cathedral webpage dated [[May 24]] indicated that at that time, the onsite investigation was underway<ref name="invupdate">[http://stsavanyc.org/press-release-serbian-orthodox-cathedral-of-saint-sava-executive-board-update/ Press Release: Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sava Executive Board Update]</ref>.  A later bulletin from the Cathedral indicates that the investigation was completed on [[June 8]], and that the report will be released in the weeks to come<ref name="report">[http://stsavanyc.org/saint-savas-sunday-bulletin-for-june-12-2016/ St. Sava Sunday Bulletin for June 12, 2016]</ref>.  However, the ''New York Post'' reported on [[June 3]] that the NYFD spokesperson Frank Gribbon announced that unextinguished candles were the definitive cause of the fire<ref name="nypostdetermination">[http://stsavanyc.org/saint-savas-sunday-bulletin-for-june-12-2016/ Cohen, Shawn, and Chris Perez; ''New York Post''; June 3, 2016]</ref>.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>An icon of [[Sava of Serbia|St. Sava]], located in the priest's office, was one of the very few items in the building not to be damaged or destroyed by fire, smoke, or water.   </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>An icon of [[Sava of Serbia|St. Sava]], located in the priest's office, was one of the very few items in the building not to be damaged or destroyed by fire, smoke, or water.   </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>St. Sava Cathedral was not the only Orthodox Church to burn on Pascha 2016.  In Australia, the [[Church of the Resurrection (Sydney, New South Wales)|Church of the Resurrection]] - a parish of the [[Macedonian Orthodox Diocese of Australia and New Zealand]] - in the Rockdale area of Sydney, New South Wales was destroyed, and in Melbourne, Victoria, the [[Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia|Greek Orthodox]] [[Holy Church of the Annunciation of our Lady (Melbourne, Victoria)|Holy Church of the Annunciation of our Lady]] sustained heavy fire damage.  Furthermore, a massive fire broke out in a hotel next to the main chapel at the [[Valaam Monastery]] in northern Russia.  All of the buildings involved are historic structures.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>St. Sava Cathedral was not the only Orthodox Church to burn on Pascha 2016.  In Australia, the [[Church of the Resurrection (Sydney, New South Wales)|Church of the Resurrection]] - a parish of the [[Macedonian Orthodox Diocese of Australia and New Zealand]] - in the Rockdale area of Sydney, New South Wales was destroyed, and in Melbourne, Victoria, the [[Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia|Greek Orthodox]] [[Holy Church of the Annunciation of our Lady (Melbourne, Victoria)|Holy Church of the Annunciation of our Lady]] sustained heavy fire damage.  Furthermore, a massive fire broke out in a hotel next to the main chapel at the [[Valaam Monastery]] in northern Russia.  All of the buildings involved are historic structures.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Katjuschahttps://orthodoxwiki.org/index.php?title=St._Sava_Cathedral_(New_York,_New_York)&diff=123350&oldid=prevKatjuscha: /* Sources */ correction (restoring)2016-05-11T20:31:12Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Sources: </span> correction (restoring)</span></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>On Pascha Sunday, May 1, 2016, a fire was seen burning in St. Sava Cathedral.  The blaze quickly grew to a 4-alarm fire, and over 170 firefighters were dispatched to the scene to battle it.  It remains unclear if any of the building can be saved, although initial reports from May 2 indicate that the exterior walls may still be structurally stable.  However, the interior and roof were completely gutted.  Because the cause of the fire was not immediately clear, the Fire Department of New York initially treated this fire as 'suspicious', although this does not necessarily mean that they suspected arson.  Subsequently, FDNY has stated that they suspect a box containing partially-burned candles may have ignited if they were not all extinguished completely. (Because of the sheer number of candles in most Orthodox Churches, candles are very often looked to as the cause of fires.  While this is sometimes the case, in others, such as the fire at [[St. Nikola Church (Cudahy, Wisconsin)|St. Nikola Church in Cudahy, Wisconsin]] candles were initially thought to have ignited it, it turned out to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">be </del>an electrical fire.)  The last people to leave St. Sava Cathedral are said to have left about 3pm; the fire was reported at 6:50pm; for their own safety firefighters were only able to go to the interior for a few minutes, seeing that the choir platform was already engulfed in flame. This led investigators to conclude that the fire had been burning, unnoticed, for some time despite the fact that a flea market had taken place next door in the hours between 3pm and when FDNY were called and there had been no reports of smoke or fire while that event was taking place.   </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>On Pascha Sunday, May 1, 2016, a fire was seen burning in St. Sava Cathedral.  The blaze quickly grew to a 4-alarm fire, and over 170 firefighters were dispatched to the scene to battle it.  It remains unclear if any of the building can be saved, although initial reports from May 2 indicate that the exterior walls may still be structurally stable.  However, the interior and roof were completely gutted.  Because the cause of the fire was not immediately clear, the Fire Department of New York initially treated this fire as 'suspicious', although this does not necessarily mean that they suspected arson.  Subsequently, FDNY has stated that they suspect a box containing partially-burned candles may have ignited if they were not all extinguished completely. (Because of the sheer number of candles in most Orthodox Churches, candles are very often looked to as the cause of fires.  While this is sometimes the case, in others, such as the fire at [[St. Nikola Church (Cudahy, Wisconsin)|St. Nikola Church in Cudahy, Wisconsin]] candles were initially thought to have ignited it, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">but </ins>it turned out to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">have been </ins>an electrical fire.)  The last people to leave St. Sava Cathedral are said to have left about 3pm; the fire was reported at 6:50pm; for their own safety firefighters were only able to go to the interior for a few minutes, seeing that the choir platform was already engulfed in flame. This led investigators to conclude that the fire had been burning, unnoticed, for some time despite the fact that a flea market had taken place next door in the hours between 3pm and when FDNY were called and there had been no reports of smoke or fire while that event was taking place.   </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>As of the morning of [[May 2]], 2016, even as the fire department was still pouring water on the remains of St. Sava Cathedral, New York City Councilmember Corey Johnson reported that he already knew of expressed interest by a developer to use the land (and that of the remains of the adjacent Chelsea Flea Market) to build an 850-foot tower.   </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>As of the morning of [[May 2]], 2016, even as the fire department was still pouring water on the remains of St. Sava Cathedral, New York City Councilmember Corey Johnson reported that he already knew of expressed interest by a developer to use the land (and that of the remains of the adjacent Chelsea Flea Market) to build an 850-foot tower.   </div></td></tr>
</table>Katjuschahttps://orthodoxwiki.org/index.php?title=St._Sava_Cathedral_(New_York,_New_York)&diff=123324&oldid=prevKatjuscha: more info2016-05-10T21:26:30Z<p>more info</p>
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