Church of the Transfiguration
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Albania

  • Holy Transfiguration Monastery Church, Çatistë
  • Holy Transfiguration Church, Gjirokastër
  • Holy Transfiguration Monastery Church, Mingul

Russia

  • Church of the Transfiguration located in Kizhi
    Kizhi Pogost
    Kizhi Pogost is a historical site dating from the 17th century on Kizhi island. The island is located on Lake Onega in the Republic of Karelia , Russia. The pogost is the area inside a fence which includes two large wooden churches and a bell-tower...

     (a World Heritage Site
    World Heritage Site
    A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a place that is listed by the UNESCO as of special cultural or physical significance...

    )

United States

Alaska
  • Holy Transfiguration of Our Lord Chapel
    Holy Transfiguration of Our Lord Chapel
    The Holy Transfiguration of Our Lord Chapel is a Russian Orthodox church located near Ninilchik, Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska....

    , Ninilchik, Alaska, listed on the NRHP in Alaska
  • Transfiguration of Our Lord Chapel, Nushagak, Alaska, listed on the NRHP in Alaska


California
  • Church of the Transfiguration located in San Jose
    San Jose, California
    San Jose is the third-largest city in California, the tenth-largest in the U.S., and the county seat of Santa Clara County which is located at the southern end of San Francisco Bay...

     (Roman Catholic)


Connecticut
  • Church of the Transfiguration located in Norfolk
    Norfolk, Connecticut
    Norfolk is a town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 1,660 at the 2000 census.Norfolk is perhaps best known as the site of the Yale Summer School of Music – Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, which hosts an annual chamber music concert series in "the Music Shed," a...

     (Episcopal)


Illinois
  • Church of the Transfiguration located in Palos Park
    Palos Park, Illinois
    Palos Park is an affluent village, in southwestern Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 4,689 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Palos Park is located at ....

     (Episcopal)
  • Church of the Transfiguration located in Wauconda
    Wauconda, Illinois
    Wauconda is a village in Lake County, Illinois, United States. The population was 9,448 at the 2000 census, estimated to be 12,614 in 2006, and is projected to reach 13,811 by 2011. It is the site of the Wauconda Bog Nature Preserve, a National Natural Landmark...

     (Roman Catholic)


Massachusetts
  • Church of the Transfiguration located in Orleans, Massachusetts
    Orleans, Massachusetts
    Orleans is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States. Barnstable County is coextensive with Cape Cod. The population was 5,890 at the 2010 census....

     (Ecumenical; Roman-style basilica)


Minnesota
  • Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration (Belle Plaine, Minnesota), listed on the NRHP in Minnesota


New Jersey
  • Church of the Transfiguration located in Collingswood
    Collingswood, New Jersey
    Collingswood is a borough in Camden County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough population was 13,926....

     (Roman Catholic)


New York
  • Little Church Around the Corner
    Little Church Around the Corner
    The Church of the Transfiguration, also known as the Little Church Around the Corner, is an Episcopal parish church located at 1 East 29th Street, between Madison and Fifth Avenues in the NoMad neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. The congregation was founded in 1848 by the Rev. Dr...

    , also known as Church of the Transfiguration, located in Manhattan
    Manhattan
    Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...

    , the first church to be named for the Transfiguration in the United States. (Episcopal); listed on the NRHP in New York
  • Church of the Transfiguration
    Church of the Transfiguration (New York City)
    The Church of the Tranfiguration is a Roman Catholic parish located at 25 Mott Street on the northwest corner of Mosco Street in the Chinatown neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City...

     located on Mott Street
    Mott Street
    Mott Street is a narrow but busy thoroughfare that runs in a north-south direction in the borough of Manhattan in New York City in the United States. It is best known as Chinatown's unofficial "Main Street". Mott Street runs from Chatham Square in the south to Bleecker Street in the north...

     in Chinatown
    Chinatown, Manhattan
    Manhattan's Chinatown , home to one of the highest concentrations of Chinese people in the Western hemisphere, is located in the borough of Manhattan in New York City...

    , New York City
    New York City
    New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

    , founded by Félix Varela
    Félix Varela
    Félix Varela y Morales was a notable figure in the Roman Catholic Church in both Cuba and the United States.-Life:Varela was born in Havana, Cuba and died in St. Augustine, Florida, United States...

    . (Originally Zion Episcopal Protestant Church; now Roman Catholic)
  • Church of the Transfiguration located in Tarrytown
    Tarrytown, New York
    Tarrytown is a village in the town of Greenburgh in Westchester County, New York, United States. It is located on the eastern bank of the Hudson River, about north of midtown Manhattan in New York City, and is served by a stop on the Metro-North Hudson Line...

    . (Roman Catholic)
  • Church of the Transfiguration located in Buffalo
    Buffalo, New York
    Buffalo is the second most populous city in the state of New York, after New York City. Located in Western New York on the eastern shores of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River across from Fort Erie, Ontario, Buffalo is the seat of Erie County and the principal city of the...

    . Closed in 1993. (Roman Catholic)
  • Church of the Transfiguration located in Maspeth, New York. (Roman Catholic)
  • Church of the Holy Transfiguration of Christ-on-the-Mount
    Church of the Holy Transfiguration of Christ-on-the-Mount
    The Church of the Holy Transfiguration of Christ on the Mount is a modest, single-room, hand-built wooden church near the summit of Meads Mountain in Woodstock, New York, originally constructed c. 1891. Services in the Sarum Rite of the Western Orthodox tradition are held each Sunday morning. It...

    , Woodstock, NY, listed on the NRHP in New York
  • Church of the Transfiguration (Blue Mountain Lake, New York)
    Church of the Transfiguration (Blue Mountain Lake, New York)
    Church of the Transfiguration is a historic Episcopal church located at Blue Mountain Lake in Hamilton County, New York. It is a small, one story, gable roofed structure with a central belfry at the west end. The building was built in 1885 and is constructed of barked spruce logs, mitred at the...

    , listed on the NRHP in New York
  • Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Transfiguration of Our Lord
    Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Transfiguration of Our Lord
    Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Transfiguration of Our Lord is a historic Russian Orthodox cathedral at 228 N. 12th Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, New York. It was built between 1916 and 1921 to the designs by Louis Allmendiger. The plan is based on a Greek cross and is designed in...

    , Brooklyn, NY, listed on the NRHP in New York


North Carolina
  • Church of the Transfiguration (Saluda, North Carolina)
    Church of the Transfiguration (Saluda, North Carolina)
    Church of the Transfiguration is a historic Episcopal church at Henderson and Charles Streets in Saluda, North Carolina.It was built in 1889 and added to the National Register in 1982.-References:...

    , listed on the NRHP in North Carolina


Pennsylvania
  • Church of the Transfiguration located in Blue Ridge Summit
    Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania
    Blue Ridge Summit is an unincorporated community in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, United States, southwest of Gettysburg in the central part of the state, adjoining Pennsylvania's southern border with Maryland. It is less than 3 miles east of Pen Mar, Maryland...

     (Episcopal)

  • Transfiguration Church located in West Hazleton
    West Hazleton, Pennsylvania
    West Hazleton, founded by Conrad Horn, is a borough in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, south of Wilkes Barre. In 1900, 2,516 people lived here; in 1910, 4,715 people lived here. The population was 4,594 at the 2010 census...

     (Roman Catholic)


Texas
  • Church of the Transfiguration located in Dallas
    Dallas, Texas
    Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...

     (Episcopal)


Washington
  • Church of Transfiguration located in Tacoma
    Tacoma, Washington
    Tacoma is a mid-sized urban port city and the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States. The city is on Washington's Puget Sound, southwest of Seattle, northeast of the state capital, Olympia, and northwest of Mount Rainier National Park. The population was 198,397, according to...

     (Russian Evangelical Baptist)


Wyoming
  • Chapel of the Transfiguration (Moose, Wyoming), listed on the NRHP in Wyoming
  • Church of the Transfiguration (Episcopal) located in Grand Teton National Park
    Grand Teton National Park
    Grand Teton National Park is a United States National Park located in northwestern Wyoming, U.S. The Park consists of approximately and includes the major peaks of the long Teton Range as well as most of the northern sections of the valley known as Jackson Hole. Only south of Yellowstone...

     near Jackson
    Jackson, Wyoming
    Jackson is a town located in the Jackson Hole valley of Teton County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 8,647 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Teton County....

    , Wyoming
    Wyoming
    Wyoming is a state in the mountain region of the Western United States. The western two thirds of the state is covered mostly with the mountain ranges and rangelands in the foothills of the Eastern Rocky Mountains, while the eastern third of the state is high elevation prairie known as the High...

    , shows the mountains through the back window.
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