St. John the Baptist Church

St John the Baptist Russian Orthodox Church came into being on April 30, 1914, when 42 persons of mainly Carpatho-Russian ethnicity living in Spring Valley, NY met in order to form a church committee which would seek the blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Platon (Rozhdestvensky) to organize a new Russian Orthodox parish.  Property at the southeastern corner of West and Church Sts, with an existing house facing West St and a sufficiently large yard as a site for the church, was purchased for $20...