St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church

Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania USA

Russian Orthodox Moscow Patriarchate

Organized in 1923, these parishioners from Galicia and Russia, had begun building their new church, meeting in the basement-like structure by the fall of 1925. The completed church was blessed in 1962. Following renovation for the 75th anniversary, the church was again blessed in 1998. Changes have included chandeliers from Austria and an iconstasis written by iconographers from Kaluga, Russia. The liturgical language is English.