The Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral is the cathedral church of the Orthodox Church in America Diocese of the Midwest. It is one of only two churches that were designed by Louis Sullivan. It is one of the seminal architects of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The founders of the church were immigrants from Carpatho-Russia, Galicia, and the Balkans. This remains as one of only two Orthodox churches that services the Orthodox-Christian community in Ukrainian Village. The construction was partly financed by a personal donation of $4,000 (approximately $40,000 in 2014) from Tsar St. Nicholas II of Russia, which lasted from 1899 to 1903. The design of the church displays many features of Russian provincial architecture, including an octagonal dome and a frontal bell tower. It is believed that the emigrants wished the church to be "remindful of the small, intimate, rural buildings they left behind in the Old World. The final design was an inspiration from a small wooden church in the Siberian village of Tatarskaya. To this traditional Russian basis of the overall design, Sullivan added decorative elements more characteristic of his own larger corpus of work, influenced by the Art Nouveau and Arts and Crafts movements, as seen, for example, in the abstract decorative design over the western entrance to the church. It is listed on the US National Register of Historic Place and is designated as a Chicago Landmark.
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