About Dnipro Ukrainian Cultural Center
Dnipro Ukrainian Cultural Center, located at 562 Genesee Street in Buffalo, New York, was built in 1914 and purchased by the Ukrainian American community in 1955. Most of the founding members were recent immigrants to America who had been displaced from their Ukrainian homeland by WII. They sought to establish a community center where they could maintain their cultural identity, pass their heritage onto their children, socialize, and organize political structures that would continue the struggle for an independent Ukraine.
So it was natural that they would name their new Ukrainian Home after the largest river in Ukraine; which flows past the capital of Kyiv south to Odessa, and empties into the Black Sea.
Over the course of the past half-century, Dnipro has hosted hundreds of profound and life-changing events such as weddings, christenings, concerts, movies, children’s programs, banquets, lectures, and meetings. For decades, almost anything important that happened in the Ukrainian American community in Buffalo happened at Dnipro (or was intensely discussed at Dnipro).
Dnipro has initiated a fundraising campaign to modernize our building and provide more and better services for the Ukrainian American Community in Buffalo and Western New York. Dnipro is a part of the Ukrainian American Freedom Foundation, which is an IRS recognized “501C3 charitable organization.” All donations are tax-deductible.
