Text transcribed from caption: P-30927 PROTESTANT AND ORTHODOX CENTER FORMALLY OPENED NEW YORK -- Three leading churchmen taking part in services formally dedicating the Protestant and Orthodox Center at the New York World’s Fair stand in the Court of Protestant Pioneers (top photo) at the entrance to the $3 million structure. From left to right, they are: Dr. Arthur L. Kinsolving, rector of St. James Episcopal church, New York, and president of the Protestant Council of the City of New York, which is sponsoring the pavilion; Archbishop Iakovos, Primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America, and Dr. R.H. Edwin Espy, executive secretary of the National Council of Church. The services opened with a processional (bottom photo) led by acolytes [acolytes] and the combined choirs of Good Shepherd Lutheran church of Brooklyn. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (MH-NY-4E-64-NBM)

Religious News Service. (publisher)

1964

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negative : black-and-white ; 10 x 8 inches

Religious News Service--Archives.
New York World’s Fair (1964-1965 : New York, N.Y.)
Kinsolving, Arthur Lee.
Protestant Council of the City of New York.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America.
Iakovos, Archbishop of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America.
Espy, R. H. Edwin.
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.
Orthodox Eastern Church--Bishops.
Episcopal Church--Clergy.

Clergy--New York (State)--New York.
Bishops--New York (State)--New York.
Dedication services--New York (State)--New York.
Ecumenical movement--New York (State)--New York.
Interdenominational cooperation--New York (State)--New York.

New York (State)
New York.
Queens (New York, N.Y.)
Flushing Meadows-Corona Park (New York, N.Y.)
North and Central America--United States--New York--New York

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