A historic Serbian Orthodox church in New York City burned down last Sunday (May 1), on the very day the congregation, and Orthodox Christians around the world, celebrated Easter. The Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sava was built in the early 1850s and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Only a charred skeleton of the church remains. Fire officials suspect the church’s caretakers accidentally placed unextinguished candles used during the service in a cardboard box.