St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral


St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral is located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City and is the administrative center of the Russian Orthodox Patriarchal Parishes in the USA.
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History

St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral is the home of a congregation which was founded in the early 1890s on Second Avenue. In 1899, the church began a building fund with seed money from Czar Nicholas to build a new church. The Cathedral, designed by Finnish-born architect John Bergesen, was completed in 1902 at 15 East 97th Street in Manhattan. The first ceremony was celebrated on 20 July 1902 by Tikhon, then Orthodox Bishop of North America, now canonised as a Saint and a confessor of the Faith. Since 1903, the Cathedral has served as the headquarters for the Russian Orthodox faith in the United States. The building was designated as an official city landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1973.