Transfiguration Cathedral (Kryvyi Rih)

Coordinates: 47 ° 56 ′ 51 ″  N , 33 ° 26 ′ 10 ″  E

The Cathedral of the Transfiguration of the Savior in Kryvyi Rih

The Savior Transfiguration Cathedral ( Ukrainian Спасо-Преображенський кафедральний собор ; Russian Спасо-Преображенский кафедральный собор / Spasso Preopraschenski kathedralni Sobor ) in the Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih , is an Orthodox church in the style of Ukrainian neo-baroque.

The cathedral is the central place of worship and bishop's seat of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Moscow Patriarchate of the Eparchy Krywyj Rih - Nikopol and is located on a hill at 1 Cathedral Street ( ул. Соборная ) in Kryvyi Rih.

Church building

Construction of the cathedral began in 1989, with the design and construction of the church being carried out by the Kiev architect Aleksandr Petrosjuk ( Александр Петросюк ). On July 15, 2003, the cathedral was consecrated to commemorate the Transfiguration of the Lord . The church has a footprint of 33 x 33 and a height of 43 meters. It has 9 domes in honor of 9 flocks of angels and has space for 3000 worshipers.

The neighboring bell tower was built from October 2004 to October 2005 and is 48 meters high. There is a library on its ground floor. On its fourth and top floor there are 22 bells, the largest of which weighs 1400 kg.

Eparchy

Eparchy within the ecclesiastical administrative structure of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate

The Kryvyi Rih-Nikopol Eparchy , whose seat is the cathedral, includes the following deaneries in the west of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast : North Kryvyi Rih, South Kryvyi Rih, Kryvyi Rih District, Kryvyi Rih Hospital Church Deanery, Nikopol City, Nikopol District, Apostolowe , Schowti Vody , Sofijiwka , Tomakivka and Schyroke .

Web links

• Page about the cathedral (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ official website of the eparchy ( Memento of the original from December 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , last accessed on January 10, 2014 (Russian) 
2. ↑ Cathedral of the Savior ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , last accessed on January 10, 2014 (Russian) 
3. ^ Page of the Eparchy , last accessed on January 10, 2014 (Russian)

Remarks

1. ↑ The Ukrainian-language Wikipedia has an article on the Krivoy Rog-Nikopol eparchy under Криворізька єпархія УПЦ (МП)