Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda and First Lady Diana Nausėdienė visited Maspeth’s Transfiguration Church Thursday to pay tribute to the church’s significance to the Lithuanian-American community in New York City and praise efforts to save the church from potential closure.
Nausėda and Nausėdienė, who were in New York to attend the United Nations General Assembly, visited Transfiguration Church at 64-25 Perry Ave. on Thursday, Sept. 25 shortly after the Brooklyn Diocese announced that the church will remain open on a “limited basis” following reports earlier in the year that the church was set to be closed down.
