This congregation split in 1874 over whether it should move west from its home at the corner of Adelaide and Church streets.

At the same time, the United Church of Canada, which Old St. Andrew's had joined in 1925, was in relative decline within the downtown core of Toronto.

By 1951, the Old St. Andrew's building on Jarvis Street was sold, and it became the main church of Toronto's Latvian and Estonian worshippers.

The building was designed in a Gothic style with a linear orientation on an East-West axis, with towers dominating the western side where the main entrances are located.

The facade is a simple-yet-elegant design featuring groupings of stained-glass windows on the north, east and south sides of the building, to allow maximum light exposure during the morning hours when services would take place.

The exterior shows mainly the brick and stone elements, while the interior reveals more of the warm wood texture complemented by the intimate lighting from the stained-glass windows.