Roman Catholic Cathedral of Novosibirsk
The Roman Catholic Cathedral of Novosibirsk with the patronage of the Transfiguration of the Lord ( Russian Собор Преображения Господня ) is the episcopal church of the Catholic Diocese of Novosibirsk in Novosibirsk . It was built from 1993 according to plans by the architect Vladimir Borodkin and was consecrated on August 10, 1997 in the presence of the Apostolic Nuncio in Russia John Bukovsky by Bishop Joseph Werth .
history
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Soon after it was founded in 1893, the young industrial city of Novonikolajewsk ( Novosibirsk since 1926 ) had a Catholic community with more than 4,000 registered members, mainly of Polish descent. After various provisional arrangements, the neo-Romanesque St. Casimir Church with school and Caritas center was built in 1905 .
In the wake of Stalinism , the church and community center were expropriated and closed in the 1930s and demolished in the 1960s. The Catholics met secretly in private apartments. In 1983 a Lady Chapel was set up on the outskirts of the city and it still exists. Towards the end of the 1980s, the construction of a large church at the current location was finally approved by the authorities. In 1991 the Catholic hierarchy in Russia was restored and Novosibirsk became the seat of an Apostolic Administration for all of Siberia , from which the dioceses of Novosibirsk and Irkutsk later emerged. The Marienkapelle initially served as a provisional bishop's church, then a simple wooden church at the construction site of the new cathedral.
architecture
In addition to the church, the new building ensemble made of reddish brick also includes a diocesan center with a bishop's apartment, meeting rooms and library. The church itself - upper church with crypt - is designed in a modern way using traditional forms of Western European Romanesque and Gothic and Russian- Byzantine church architecture - especially for the gate entrance and the bell tower. The church hall consists of three segments that are gradually raised towards the chancel. There are large ribbon windows in the step fronts.
Web links
- History and architecture (web presence of the diocese, Russian)
Coordinates: 55 ° 1 ′ 39.3 ″ N , 82 ° 55 ′ 42.9 ″ E