- EXHIBIT
- The Russian Orthodox Exhibit
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- AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE
- Mr. John Hennessy
- Russian Orthodox Greek-Catholic Church of America, Inc.
- 2040 Anza Street
- San Francisco 18, California
- 415 YU 2-2689
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- FAIR CONTACT
- Mr. William Ottley
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- CONTRACT SIGNED
- September 19, 1963
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- LOCATION
- Block 7; Lot 6
- Industrial Area
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- AREA
- 15,591 sq. ft.
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- ARCHITECT
- Vogel and Strunk
- 101 Park Avenue
- New York, New York
- MU 5-0285
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- CONTRACTOR
- Robert Glenn, Inc.
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- ADMISSION
- Free
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SOURCE: 1964 World's Fair Information Manual
- FEATURES
- The Russian Orthodox Church Exhibit is a replica of the Fort Ross, California Chapel, which was the first Russian Orthodox Church in the United States and the original of which is now a California Historical monument.
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- Within this building is the "Holy Ikon of the Virgin of Kazan" described by church authorities as follows: "A revered portrait, painted in Kazan, Russia about 1400 A.D., 11 inches by 13 inches in size; decorated with 1,009 gems valued at $500,000, including six emeralds from King Solomon's Mines; enshrined in 1630 at Kazan Cathedral in Moscow, which was specially built to receive it. Except for occasional removals from the Cathedral--once it was taken to the battle lines to inspire the Czarist troops in the defeat of Napeoleon at Moscow--the Ikon remained in the Royal Ikonostas until 1917 when, after the Bolshevik Revolution, it came into private hands."
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- In addition, there is displayed outdoors a cross-section of a giant California redwood log showing the hsitory of the wolrd and the history of the Holy Ikon worked on its rings.
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- Another small structure displays and offers for sale religious objects and publications of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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Russian Orthodox Church Exhibit
Source: NY World's Fair Publication For Those Who Produced the New York World's Fair 1964-1965
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