Yúra pronounced [ʊkrɐˈjinʲsʲkɐ kɐtoˈlɪt͡sʲkɐ ˈt͡sɛrkʋɐ sʲʋʲɐˈtɔɦo ˈjurɐ]) is a Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church located in East Village, Manhattan, New York City, at 7th Street and Taras Shevchenko Place.
[10] The Bowery Village Church was originally built in the 1840s to serve an immigrant population in Little Germany, which had rapidly declined after the General Slocum steamboat fire resulted in the tragic loss of over 1,000 German Americans in 1904.
[9] Later referred to as the "Old Church" by the new Ukrainian Catholic owners, the AIA Guide to New York City (Revised Edition 1978) described the new home of St. George parish as "a Greek Revival temple in stucco, with a mini-onion dome."
The AIA regretted the "domed symbol of the parish's wealth and burgeoning membership: Miami Beach on 7th Street replaces the real Greek Revival thing.
"[13] From 1980 until his death in 2012, Andrij Dobriansky, a principal artist with the Metropolitan Opera, was the liturgical cantor as well as the director of the Andrey Sheptytsky choir at Saint George Ukrainian Catholic Church.