St. Nicholas Cathedral
- Architect
- Worthmann & Steinbach
- Year
- 1913
- Style
- Byzantine
- City
- Chicago, IL
St. Nicholas Cathedral serves Chicago's Ukrainian Greek Catholic community, founded in 1905 by a small group of Ukrainian laborers on the North Side and formally established as a parish in January 1906. The congregation purchased land at Oakley Boulevard and Rice Street in 1913, and the present Byzantine Revival church, designed by Worthmann and Steinbach, was completed there in 1915.
the building
Iconography by Makarenko. Between 1974 and 1977 the interior was renovated by iconographer Boris Makarenko, giving the cathedral its Byzantine-style icon program.
the style
Worthmann and Steinbach designed the cathedral in the Byzantine Revival manner, giving Chicago's Ukrainian Greek Catholic community a domed church rooted in the Eastern liturgical tradition rather than the Latin Gothic and Renaissance forms favored by the city's Polish and German parishes.
More on Byzantinesignificance
In 1961 the church was elevated to cathedral status as the seat of the newly established Eparchy of St. Nicholas of Chicago, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic eparchy that still governs from here.
nearby
- Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral and Rectory
- Holy Innocents Church
- Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church
- Elizabeth Peabody Public School
- Lindemann & Hoverson Co. Showrm & Warehse
- Polish National Alliance Building