St. Andrew's Cathedral (Silver Spring, Maryland)

St. Andrew Cathedral
Religion
Affiliation	Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA
Rite	Byzantine Rite
Leadership	Archbishop: Archbishop Antony Pastor: Father Volodymyr Steliac
Year consecrated	1988
Location
Location	15100 New Hampshire Avenue Silver Spring, Maryland United States
Architecture
Architect(s)	M. Nimtsev
Type	Cathedral
Style	Kozak Baroque
Completed	1987
Dome(s)	Five
Website
www.standrewuoc.org

St. Andrew Cathedral is a Ukrainian Orthodox cathedral at 15100 New Hampshire Avenue in Silver Spring, Maryland, United States. It is the seat of the Archbishop of New York-Washington.

History

St. Andrew’s Parish was founded with a membership of 65 families in the Washington, D.C. area in 1949. The community initially met in rented buildings until it bought and renovated a structure on 16th Street. The congregation purchased the property in Silver Spring in 1986 and commissioned a church building in the Kozak Baroque style. That same year the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl occurred and the church was dedicated in memory of the victims. The church building was finished the following year and it was consecrated on April 24, 1988. It features a mosaic of its patron, St. Andrew, above the entrance on the street façade and five cupolas with gilt Onion domes.

External links

• Cathedral Web Site
• Diocesan Web Site