Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, Vienna

The Greeks Church of the Holy Trinity (also: Church of the Holy Trinity) is an Orthodox church in the 1st district of Vienna Innere city on the meat market 13 in the former " Greek quarter ."

She's Metropolitan Cathedral of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Austria Hungary and Central Europe Exarchate of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople Opel, while the Church community representation is the St. George on Hafnersteig in the Greek Oriental Church in Austria.

History

Already in 1782 said to have been converted into a simple Greek church on the site that Counts Stockhammersche house. The Greek Orthodox church of the Holy Trinity was founded in 1787 as a result of 1781 decreed by Emperor Joseph II tolerance patent. While the church of St. George took the subjects of the Ottoman Empire in Vienna, were the members of the Holy Trinity subjects of the Habsburgs, and after 1848 the Empire of Austria / Austria -Hungary. 1837 purchased by the City an adjacent to the St. Marx cemetery plot and built on a dedicated department.

Architecture

The Greek- Austrian businessman Georg Simon Sina took Theophil von Hansen from Athens for the planning of its office buildings in Vienna. He was also commissioned the rebuilding of 1782-87, built by Peter Mollner church. This began in 1856, the solemn inauguration took place on 21 December 1858.

Theophil Hansen, who had indeed studied Byzantine art in Athens, built as an architect in the style of the Nordic Classicism, he was a Greek coinage in his buildings in Athens. In the construction of the church in Vienna, he designed a building in the Byzantine style for the first time.

Reason for this is probably been that for a classicism is hardly suitable for religious buildings, and on the other, that the church is open as a Greek Orthodox church and other Orthodox Christians, and was used to build their own churches by other Orthodox communities, example of the Serbian community that made the early 1890s to build their own church in the 3rd district.

The main room shows allusions to Baroque church architecture, as can be found in southern Germany and Austria. Also comes usually not provided in the factory Hansen. Carl Rahl painted the images on the facade and in the vestibule, the frescoes in the church are by Ludwig Thiersch.

The orders Sina in Vienna contributed significantly to the breakthrough of the architect Theophil Hansen, who was a few years later entrusted with important buildings such as the Parliament building at the ring road.

Use

Since 1963, the Church of the Holy Trinity is the cathedral of the Greek - Orthodox Metropolitan of Austria. In the premises of the church today the offices of the Metropolitan, the Greek School and a Greek library are housed. The church is located near the Church in Griechengasse.