WTC Cross Moves to St. Peter's Today

This morning, workers will take down the iron cross at Ground Zero and prepare to move it to St. Peter's Church this afternoon. There will be a small ceremony for the cross's transfer, and St. Peter's will be its home until the World Trade Center Memorial Museum is open. If you're near the site, you may see a flatbed truck bringing the cross to St. Peter's around 2PM. WABC 7 explains the cross's history: "The two cast-iron beams left in the shape of a cross after the collapse of the Twin Towers were hoisted onto a 40-foot foundation on October 4th, 2001 and quickly became one of the best-known symbols of the site."

And yesterday's news that Mayor Bloomberg will likely head the WTC Memorial Foundation was greeted with a mixed reaction.

Photograph of the cross in question from Farl's flickr stream

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By Jen Chung in News on October 5, 2006 9:18 AM

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The funny thing is that there were probably dozens if not hundreds of iron beams that could have passed for crosses in the wreckage. It was a skyscraper! Iron beams crossed iron beams at right angles thousands of times over up and down the building! It's not like it magically got contorted into a Jewish star or melted into a life-size image of Mary.

A cross at the site seems a little disrespectful to the people of other faiths (or no faith) that died there.