The Cathedral of Christ the Savior today is the Cathedral and in fact the main temple of Russia. Here the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia performs services, the Councils of Bishops and other church forums are held. The dramatic fate of the temple made it not only a monument to the fallen in 1812 (as originally intended), but also a testament to the complex twists and turns in the history of Russia in the twentieth century. The Cathedral of Christ the Savior is on the balance of the Moscow City Administration, which transferred the Church of the ROC to perpetual use
| Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow |
The Cathedral of Christ the Savior is a memorial temple, it was erected in honor of the victory and in memory of the fallen in the war of 1812 . By tradition, such vows were built in honor of church holidays or in honor of St. . But this temple was erected in the name of the Savior himself . According to the idea of Alexander Whitberg, the first architect of the cathedral, the temple was to be majestic and colossal, and its glory was to surpass the glory of Peter's Cathedral in Rome. . Originally the temple was planned to be erected on Vorobyovy Gory, laid the foundation, but the architect was accused of overstating the estimated costs and exiled to Vyatka . The special commission banned the construction on the Vorobyovy Gory due to the fragile soil that could not withstand such a heavy structure . New place was chosen near the Kremlin .
Constructional Construction Project it began in 1839 and was completed only in 1881 . During the Stalinist regime the temple was blown up and the Palace of Soviets was to appear in its place - a huge building crowned with Lenin's sculpture . The implementation of the grandiose idea was prevented by the war, and afterwards its completion of funds for the Palace was not found, and from a political point of view the structure lost its relevance. . In 1960, an outdoor swimming pool "Moscow" appeared on the site of the cathedral, which existed until 1994 . In connection with this pool, water in which was not particularly clear one recalls the legend of a nun who, opposing the construction of the temple on the site of the Alekseevsky Monastery, cursed the construction site and predicted that a huge dirty puddle would be located on the site of the temple .
In the early 90's, already in the new Russia, the church decided to build anew . Restorer Alexei Denisov was painstaking work to restore the historical appearance of the cathedral according to the surviving drawings, drawings and measurements, but because of the disagreements about the appearance of the cathedral, he was removed from work . Completion of the temple of hands Zurab Tsereteli, who decided to make the exterior decoration of the walls in bronze, although there was not a single example in the history of Russian church architecture, when the metal was used in this case . The temple was completed, but this is not the same temple that stood here for a hundred years back, despite the external resemblance . The decoration of the temple was conceived by Tone as a chronicle of the Patriotic War of 1812 in the Gospel stories, but now this kind of stone book can not be read without reference to archival sources .
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Address: Volkhonka, 15-17, not far from the Kremlin; m. "Kropotkinskaya"; website
There is an opportunity to climb to the observation deck, the museum works, excursions are conducted.
Reviews of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior (1)
Visiting the temple and an interesting walk around it April 17, 2014
I hurried there too. There was a desire to defend service in this paramount Orthodox sanctuary, to walk around the museum in the basement, but most of all - to look at the tabernacle of the main altar.
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