Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Baku

The Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Baku was from 1898 to 1936 the largest Russian Orthodox church in the southern Caucasus.

History

Given the growing Orthodox community in Baku in 1878 by the Russian regional governor an orthodox construction of a cathedral was excited. As a building site was envisaged a former Muslim cemetery, but this led to protests and tangles. After ten years there but to some sort of amicable solution, and 1888 sat Tsar Alexander III. in a representative ceremony the foundation for the new cathedral. Your project was completed in 1898. She was part of a large Kirchenbauprogramms. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral emerged at that time throughout the Tsarist Empire, which at the ceremony just this " military saints " political aspects resonated.

The planning of the cathedral in Baku was carried out by the German -born Russian architect Robert Marfeld and his assistant Józef Gorlansky. As an example of the St. Basil's Cathedral and serving Christ the Saviour Cathedral ( Moscow).

During the anti-religious phase of Stalinism, the cathedral was blown up in 1936 as a potential focal point against the regime of religious forces with dynamite. In its place now stands the Bulbul Academy of Music.