Alexander Nevsky Cathedral (Paris)
The Alexander Nevsky Cathedral ( French: Cathédrale Saint-Alexandre-Nevski ) in the French capital Paris was built from 1859 to 1861 in the neo-Byzantine style and is located in the 8th arrondissement . The architects were Roman Kusmin and Johann Waldemar Strom . It was consecrated on September 11, 1861 by the Archbishop of Reval and later Metropolitan of Moscow, Leontius . The cathedral is the seat of the exarchate of the Orthodox parishes of Russian tradition in Western Europe and its archbishop. Like all Alexander Nevsky Cathedrals , it is named after the Russian national saint, Alexander Yaroslavich Nevsky . There are two parishes in the church; one holds services in French, the other in Church Slavonic .
history
The construction of the church had been planned since 1847 and was initiated by Joseph Vasiliev, who was the chaplain of the Russian embassy in Paris. It was paid for by donations from the Russian community; The Russian Tsar Alexander II also contributed with a donation of over 100,000 gold francs .
In 1918 the well-known painter Pablo Picasso married his first wife Olga Stepanovna Chochlowa here . In 1922 the church became a cathedral, as an archbishop moved into the church that year.
Long-time chess world champion Vladimir Borissowitsch Kramnik also married Marie-Laure Germon in 2007 in the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Paris. The Russians Iwan Sergejewitsch Turgenew , Fyodor Iwanowitsch Chalyapin and Wassily Kandinsky who died in or near Paris were honored here after their deaths.
The five onion domes stand for Jesus and the four evangelists .
Jurisdiction
The Alexander Nevsky Cathedral with its eparchy has been under the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople since 1931 . The Holy Trinity Cathedral has existed since 2016 for the diocese of Chersonesos, which is also based in Paris and covers large parts of Western Europe, of the Patriarchate of Moscow and all of Russia .
Funeral services
- Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev 1883;
- Caran d'Ache , 1909;
- Fyodor Ivanovich Chalyapin 1938;
- Boris Vladimirovich Romanov 1943;
- Wassily Kandinsky 1944;
- Georges I. Gurdjieff 1949;
- Vaslav Nijinsky 1950;
- Ivan Bounine 1953;
- Andrei Tarkovski 1986;
- Viktor Nekrassov 1987;
- André Grabar 1990;
- Youly Algaroff 1995;
- Henri Troyat 2007;
- Patrick Topaloff 2010;
- Évelyne Pagès 2011;
- Nikita Struve 2016;
- Michel Legrand 2019.
Web links
- Cathédralee Orthodoxe Saint-Alexandre-Nevsky in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- Description and pictures of the cathedral in English and French
Individual evidence
- ↑ very brief information about the cathedral on de.structurae.de
- ↑ Ivan Strom biography on biografija.ru ; last accessed on May 20, 2014
- ↑ a b c History on russie.net (French) ( Memento from February 11, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b c Report on Kramnik's wedding on chessbase.de
- ↑ Dominique Frétard, Youly Algaroff, obituary. In: Le Monde, August 17, 1995 ( en ligne ).
- ^ Radio Ici Radio Canada , contribution from January 28, 2019
Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ′ 40.2 " N , 2 ° 18 ′ 5.7" E