St. Nicholas Cathedral (Washington, D.C.)

St. Nicholas Cathedral (Russian: Свято-Николаевский собор) in Washington, D.C., is the primatial cathedral of the Orthodox Church in America and the seat of Tikhon, Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada of the Orthodox Church in America.

In 1949 the Synod of Bishops authorized the parish to be the church's National War Memorial Shrine and a national campaign to build a monumental Orthodox church in the capital of the United States was begun.

A bell tower commemorating the millennium of Christianity in Russia was dedicated in 1988.

Beginning in 1991, dedicated iconographers from Moscow led by Alexander Maskalionov painted icons throughout the nave in the traditional style.

The cathedral is at 3500 Massachusetts Ave NW at the corner of Edmund Street, in the District of Columbia.