Maspeth Church Keeps Lithuanian Rites
And then there were two… The Transfiguration Roman Catholic Church is tucked on a midblock slope in Maspeth named after Monsignor Frank Bulovas. Parked on the sidewalk outside the church an Acura license plate reads Siauliai, and a Benz reads Lietuva. That’s the native name for Lithuania, a West Virginia-sized Baltic state represented by the church. With the 2007 closing of Our Lady of Vilnius in the West Village, only Transfiguration and the Annunciation Church in Williamsburg remain as the city’s sole outposts of Lithuanian Catholic traditions. (more…)