Coronation Cathedral, Alba Iulia

The Trinity Cathedral ( rumän. Catedrala Sfânta Treime ) with the nickname Cathedral of the reunification of the nation ( Catedrala Reîntregirii Neamului so since 1948 ) or coronation cathedral ( Catedrala Încoronării until 1948) in the Romanian county town of Alba Iulia ( Charles Castle ) is the Episcopal Church of the Romanian Orthodox archeparchy Alba Iulia.

The neo-Byzantine central building with main and side domes, a 58 meter high bell tower and a surrounding rectangle of living, meeting and administrative buildings were built from 1921 to 1923 after plans by Victor Gheorghe Ştefănescu in the immediate vicinity of the Roman Catholic St. Michael's Cathedral after Transylvania had become as a result of World War I part of Romania. On October 15, 1922, the cathedral scene of the coronation of King Ferdinand I and Queen Marie. 1948 was celebrated here after the ban of the Romanian Greek-Catholic Church by the communist regime and the arrest of many of opposing priests and lay the union of the united with the Romanian Orthodox Church.