Basilica of St. Patrick's on mulberry street commonly called the old Cathedral. New located on Fifth Avenue is a world famous Catholic Cathedral of Saint Patrick. It opened in 1879 and the old, no longer contained the faithful, remained active Church.

In 2010, it was granted the title of Basilica as the Church played and still plays a significant role in the history of the Catholic Church.

Of course, he's not as big and luxurious as the new Cathedral, but, nevertheless, very good. When it opened in 1815, the newspaper wrote that this is one of the greatest ornaments of new York. Constructed under the project of Joseph-françois Mangena in neo-Gothic style, the Cathedral is really beautiful, with delicate bindings Lancet Windows, purple walls. Gorgeous and its interior: graceful columns carved wooden statues of the virgin and saints in the aisles, organ 1868, a huge marble altar and behind it are some of the best religious sculptures in the USA, carved gilt figures of the apostles.

Movie lovers know how the Church looks from the inside – it was here that Francis Coppola filmed the famous scene of the baptism in the film "the Godfather".

The most dramatic episode in the history of St. Patrick's Cathedral is associated with the explosion of anti-Catholic sentiment in 1836. After the publication of the defamatory book about how Catholic priests are killing children, the Protestants decided to take revenge. Slander denounced anti-Catholic magazine, but even that didn't help. The anger of the crowd was warmed up by the leaders of the political movement for the cleansing of America from immigrants (especially immigrants-Catholics).

In the end, the Protestants decided to burn the Cathedral of Saint Patrick. This learned Archbishop of new York John Hughes and began to act decisively – no wonder his nickname was "Dagger John." He caused several thousand Irish-Catholics, commanded them to arm themselves and take positions in the churchyard to protect the Cathedral. The crowd broke several stones stained glass Windows, but the type of weapon in the hands of many men cooled the ardor of the assailants – they fled. More attack on the temple was not tried, and he continued to Minister to the Irish, Italian, French, German immigrants.