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St. Andrew's Russian Orthodox Cathedral, 707-709 Fifth Street, near corner of Fifth and Fairmount Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA
- Title: St. Andrew's Russian Orthodox Cathedral, 707-709 Fifth Street, near corner of Fifth and Fairmount Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA
- Creator(s): Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
- Related Names:
Anderson and Haupt
Amott, David , historian
Jacobs, James A , project manager
Jacobs, James A , transmitter - Date Created/Published: Documentation compiled after 1933
- Medium: Data Page(s): 34
- Reproduction Number: ---
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- Call Number: HABS PA-6721
- Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
- Notes:
- Significance: Constructed in 1911 in the heart of Philadelphia’s historic Northern Liberties area, St. Andrew’s Russian Orthodox Cathedral is one of the more architecturally distinctive buildings in the district. Its stone facade, accented above the roofline by three, blue onion domes, stands out among the brick houses, churches, and industrial remnants in the surrounding neighborhood. Designed during the short-lived collaboration between Julius Anderson and Max Haupt, the cathedral blends characteristically American and Russian features. The building extends out to the front lot line and has a spatial arrangement that positions an elevated sanctuary over a lower social hall, resembling other religious buildings constructed in urban centers throughout the United States around the turn-of-the-last century. In contrast, the onion domes and, on the interior, the iconostasis and decorative murals clearly assert its Russian cultural connections. Similar to other immigrant groups at the time, the building’s mix of local and foreign elements is a physical metaphor for the congregation’s efforts to balance native traditions with the adopted ones of their new home. Ostensibly founded in 1897 by a fraternity of recently-immigrated Eastern Europeans for religious purposes, St. Andrew’s Cathedral functioned not only as a spiritual center for the newly arrived, but also as a vital social center. The construction of a new and larger building in 1911 demonstrated the period growth and health of Philadelphia’s Russian community and asserted this community’s presence in the city. Although easily and appropriately comprehended within the general contexts of the “immigrant experience,” the history of St. Andrew’s Cathedral is also exceptional in a number of ways. Father Alexander Hotovitzky, one of the major forces behind the expansion of the Russian Orthodox Church in the United States, performed the first service for the nascent congregation in 1897. Hotovitzky disappeared in Russia in 1937 and is believed to have been killed because of his vocal defense of the Church against Communism; in 1994, Hotovitzky was named a “hieromartyr” of the Orthodox faith. Members of the Russian Navy supported the young parish after their arrival in Philadelphia in 1898 to observe the construction of two of their warships at the renowned Cramp’s Shipyard. Their assistance provided the means for St. Andrew’s to acquire its first church building, which Archbishop Tikhon consecrated in 1902 and dedicated to St. Andrew, the patron saint of the Russian Navy. Tikhon later became Patriarch-Confessor of Moscow and Russia and in 1989 was canonized a saint by the Russian Church for his efforts to promote Orthodoxy in both North America and Russia. The present church is understandably proud of its unique history and since the Fall of Communism in 1991 has enjoyed both an expanding membership and restored, active ties with Russia.
- Survey number: HABS PA-6721
- Building/structure dates: 1911 Initial Construction
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- Part of: Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
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- Call Number: HABS PA-6721
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