St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral

St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral (Свято-Николаевский собор РПЦ в Нью-Йорке) is located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City and is the administrative center of the Russian Orthodox Church in North America.

St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral is the home of a congregation which was founded in the early 1890s on Second Avenue.

[1] The Cathedral, designed by Finnish-born architect John Bergesen, was completed in 1902 at 15 East 97th Street in Manhattan.

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.