All faiths seek to make sense of the miracle of life which we all share. We have been taught to see our differences, when in fact our similarities are more striking. Tolerance is part of being a New Yorker.
We don’t represent any religion
We write about faith in the hope that sharing traditions leads to the discovery of our common humanity. Whatever way makes sense to you, may you and your family be blessed.
In colonial times, Roman Catholicism had a major influence on the Latin world, but Latins are of all faiths including science, nature and nothing at all. Protestantism was a historic response to some of Catholicism’s failings. Judaism has a big influence on what it means to be a New Yorker and an American. Islamic Spain produced a civilization equal in stature and influence to the Roman Empire and the Renaissance. Voodoo, Santería and Candomblé are important faiths across the Black Americas. Indigenous beliefs are also part of who we are as Americans.
In competition, faiths demonize each other. But if any human faiths are false, they are all false; and if any human faiths are true, they are all true.
The earliest human concepts of faith are based on the forces of nature. The sun, moon, wind, and water are in everywhere around the world. We make the mistake of naming them, claiming them and then fighting over who knows the right name.
These are some of the names of the Great Spirit: Kishelemukong, Wakan Tanka, Teotl, Hunab Ku, Inti, and Olodumare, Bondyé, Atabey, and Ahura Mazda, Yahweh, Father, and Allah.
They are Lenape, Sioux, Aztec, Maya, Inca and Cuban, Haitian, Dominican/Puerto Rican Taíno, and Zoroastrian, Jewish, Christian and Islamic, but they are all names of the One.
Celebrate Eid al-Adha, the Most Sacred Muslim Holiday!
Saturday-Wednesday, July 9-13, 2022
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Celebrate Eleguá~Eshu, Orisha of Destiny
Friday, January 6, 2023
Tuesday, June 13, 2023
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Celebrate Ramadan, the Month of Muslim Community!
Friday, April 1 to 30, 2022
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Celebrate Palm Sunday!
Sunday, April 10, 2022 ✝️
Celebrate Lent, the Spiritual Preparation for Easter
Wednesday, March 2 – April 14, 2022 ✝️
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Celebrate Passover, the Jewish Spring Festival!
Friday, April 15-22, 2022 ✡️
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Commemorate Good Friday!
Friday, April 15, 2022 ✝️
Celebrate Easter Sunday!
Sunday, April 17, 2022 ✝️
Celebrate the Feast of the Ascension!
Thursday, May 26, 2022
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Spiritual Places in NYC
We invite everyone to respect New York City’s faiths.
St. Patrick’s Cathedral is Open
Sunday, June 28, 2020 ✝️
Trinity Church
FINANCIAL DISTRICT, NYC
Old New York’s iconic church on Broadway at Wall St is Episcopal
Shearith Israel is the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
UPPER WEST SIDE, September 1654 ~ The first Jewish group arrived in New Amsterdam fleeing the Spanish Inquisition which had followed them to Recife in Dutch Brazil. They formed Shearith Israel, the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, America’s first Jewish congregation.
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Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue
Episcopal
1 West 53rd St
at Fifth Avenue
Midtown, Manhattan
Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe
WEST VILLAGE, NYC ~ New York’s oldest Spanish-language parish has daily masses in Spanish & English. That stretch of 14th St was once NYC’s “Little Spain.”
West-Park Presbyterian Church
A Romanesque Revival church on Manhattan’s Upper West Side that is the home of Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca
Temple Emanu-El
1 East 65th St at Fifth Avenue
Upper East Side, Manhattan
St Mark’s Church-In-The-Bowery
St Marks Church-In-The-Bowery is an Episcopal Church that serves all faiths and communities in Manhattan’s…