Saint Demetrios Jersey City

The first Greek immigrants arrived Jersey City in the 1900's. Increasing in  numbers after the genocide in Asia Minor, they established the church in the 1920's, originally naming their community St. Basilios. In 1923 they received their first permanent priest, Fr. Angelo Tsigounis. Five years later Dimitrios Magos donated a building at York Street, formerly a Jewish Community Center.   The parish was renamed St Demetrios in honor of its great benefactor.

From 1936 until the 1970s the church was located on 240 Montgomery Street in downtown Jersey City.  As the parish expanded, that building in turn became inadequate, and a centrally located building was  purchased for $65,000., the former Westminster Presbyterian Church built in 1886 on 524 Summit Ave., just behind the newly constructed Journal Square Path Station.
 

Since its inception our parish has gone through different stages of growth. Once a very large community who could not fit its member giving rise to the founding of a new parish just a few streets away. It now finds itself as a small church community, in the midst of modern sky scrapers backdropped by a mural of graffiti art, yet continues to strive and bear an effective witness to the Gospel of Jesus Christ to all, as expressed in the apostolic tradition and worship of the Greek Orthodox Church. We invite you to also participate in this witness by joining the worship and fellowship of our parish.

 


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