[1] St. Andrew’s Parish was founded with a membership of 65 families in the Washington, D.C. area in 1949.

[2] The community initially met in rented buildings until it bought and renovated a structure on 16th Street.

The congregation purchased the property in Silver Spring in 1986 and commissioned a church building in the Kozak Baroque style.

That same year the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl occurred and the church was dedicated in memory of the victims.

It features a mosaic of its patron, St. Andrew, above the entrance on the street façade and five cupolas with gilt Onion domes.