[2] The parish church was founded in 1963 by Vladimir and Anastasia Norko, an immigrant couple, in order to serve the needs of the Russian American immigrant community in Baltimore.

Nikolai Makowelski was the first reverend of the church and served until his retirement in 1984.

The use of Old Church Slavonic was meant to appeal to Russian and other Slavic immigrants to Baltimore.

The iconostasis of the church was painted by the Orthodox priest and artist Theodore Jurewicz, one of the foremost disciples of the renowned Russian Orthodox iconographer abroad, Fr.

Cyprian (Pyzhov) of the Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, New York.