The original wooden church was built in 1919 and was in use for nearly 50 years until its replacement in 1968 with the present building. While the founding members of the parish were almost exclusively of Russian, Galician, Carpatho-Russian, and Ukrainian origin, today St Nicholas parish provides the place of worship and spiritual care for people of various ethnic and cultural backgrounds: Russian, Ukrainian, Greek, Italian, Belorussian, American, Romanian, Georgian, Latin American, etc., who were either raised Orthodox, came to Orthodox Christianity after years of spiritual search, or converted from other denominations.