Seattle, Washington USA
Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia
The Cathedral, founded by Russian immigrants fleeing Communism after the 1917 Russian Revolution, was consecrated on December 19, 1937. It was dedicated to St. Nicholas the Wonderworker of Myra in Lycia and designated as a memorial to Czar Nicholas II, his family and Russian soldiers and people who died in the Revolution. More Russians came to Seattle after escaping the Japanese occupation in Manchuria in the 1930¹s and the Soviet Union's devastation in World War II. When Communism spread to China in 1947, many Russians who had resettled there, again fled. Many were rescued from refugee camps in the Philippines.The Cathedral is one of the oldest parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia in the United States.