{"id":510850,"date":"2026-07-07T05:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T05:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/parishes-st-nicholas-church-orthodox-church-in-america\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T05:11:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T05:11:00","slug":"parishes-st-nicholas-church-orthodox-church-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/parishes-st-nicholas-church-orthodox-church-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Parishes &#8211; St. Nicholas Church &#8211; Orthodox Church in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The seed for an Orthodox church of the southside of Bethlehem was planted by Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church of Catasauqua, PA. On April 29, 1914, authorization to collect funds for this purpose was initiated and continued for several years. This missionary activity led to the formal founding of St Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church in 1916.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oca.org\/parishes\/oca-ep-bthsnc\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/www.oca.org\/parishes\/oca-ep-bthsnc<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The seed for an Orthodox church of the southside of Bethlehem was planted by Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church of Catasauqua, PA. On April 29,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zurich","wpcat-8-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}