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==Beginnings of St. Nicholas Parish==
In 1921, the parish of St. Nicholas which was forming in Munich was comprised mostly of immigrants to Germany. The parish received the Adlerberg iconostasis and Liturgical items on loan from the Adlerberg family. In 1922, the parish of St. Nicholas was officially formed. (The Adlerberg iconostasis and other items would be given to this parish outright by the descendents of Count Adlerberg, who did not remain Orthodox. What is left of the iconostasis today can be found in the altar room of the Orthodox women's [[Convent of St. Elisabeth, Grand Duchess (Buchendorf, Bavaria)|Convent of St. Elizabeth, Grand Duchess in Buchendorf, Bavaria]].) Services at this time took place in a hall on Mathildenstrasse. Some of the priests who came to serve here were from Poland, including one who would later become Bishop [[[[Philotheus (Narko) of Berlin|Philotheus]], Archbishop of Berlin and Germany. In 1937, Father [[[[Alexander (Lovchy) of Berlin|Alexander (Andrij) Lowtschy]] (the future Archbishop), a monk, began serving this parish, a post he would hold for many years.
This parish was very active - with 636 members on paper - there was a parish school, a sisterhood, a mission committee, and a regular newsletter. Services were held in an empty building belonging to a Protestant church at Denningerstrasse 5. As World War II continued on, the parish also worked to serve the many prisoners of war and displaced people around Munich. The Salvatorkirche had been closed once Germany invaded Greece in 1941, but was opened again in 1943 under the auspices of ROCOR, which had been recognized as a church in Germany since 1936. (The parish was returned to the Greek jurisdiction after the war.)
