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Ancient Goddesses in New York

An Online Guide to Discovering the Sacred Feminine in
Museums, Temples, and Public Places

Goddesses Most High

 

Look, up in the sky. It's a bird. It's a plane. It's a super diety! Goddesses and other Divine Beings can be found on buildings, roofs, and other high places, presiding over New York.

 

 

Nike Atop the  USS Maine National Monument CPS

Boaz Rottem / Alamy Stock Photo
 
Nike is featured at the very top of the huge on USS Maine National Monument at the Southern Entrance of Central Park.

Goddess Minerva on the Grand Central Clock

Photo: Deposit Photos

 

Minerva joins Hercules on the historic clock atop Grand Central Station. That's her to the right.

Three Goddesses Over Broadway

Photo Credit: Beyond My Ken/Creative Commons-4.0 International License
 
The three marble statues of Roman goddesses — Panacea, Athena, and Ceres — guard over the old St. Nicholas Hotel at 542-544 Broadway. In 1864, this was erected but late combine. Located between Prince and Spring streets, you can look up and see them on the sixth and final floor.

A Goddess Presides Over City Hall NY

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A Lady Justice Statue atop New York's City Hall.

A Goddess Presides Over the NYS Supreme Court

Photo: Laurie Sue Brockway/Goddess Communications

 

Lady Justice is in the Center of the carvings atop the New York State Supreme Court Building, originally known as the New York County Courthouse, at 60 Centre Street on Foley Square in the Civic Center neighborhood of Manhattan. The New York County Supreme Court was designated a New York City Landmark in 1966.

A Goddess Preside Over "Good Government"

Photo: Laurie Sue Brockway/GoddesCommunications

 

A Goddess on the side of the NYS Supreme Court building over the words "Good Government."

Goddess Presides Over the Manhattan Municipal Building

Photo: Laurie Sue Brockway/Goddess Communications

 

Goddess of Victory waves her laurel wreath from high Above the Municipal Building in Lower Manhattan.

A Goddess Blesses the City with Success

Photo: Laurie Sue Brockway/Goddess Communications
 
A closer look at the goddess that lives atop the Municipal Building in Manhattan. It's Nike offering her laurel crown. She blesses all of the city and the people in the cars that cross the bridges.

A Goddess Presides Over the NY Stock Exchange

Photo: Laurie Sue Brockway/Goddess Communications

 

Integrity is the Goddess atop the New York Stock Exchange.

A Closer Look at the Goddess of Intergrity

 

Photo: Laurie Sue Brockway/Goddess Communications

 

 Integrity is the Goddess atop the New York Stock Exchange.

A Goddess Presides Over Brooklyn

 

 

Andriy Blokhin / Alamy Stock Photo

 

Lady Justice Statue made of bronze on top of the Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York.

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