Odessa Cathedral

The Transfiguration Cathedral (Russian: Спасо - Преображенский кафедральный собор - Spasso Preopraschenski Sobor; Ukrainian: Спасо - Преображенський кафедральний собор ) in Cathedral Park of Odessa is a substantially at the beginning of the 19th century built under Stalin in 1936 destroyed and since 1999 as original as possible reconstruction reconstructed russian Orthodox bishop's church.

History

Catherine the Great, the founder of Odessa, located at the church, which should be dedicated to the Transfiguration of Christ. It was started in 1795, but came under Catherine's son Paul for a few years to a halt. Under Governor Vorontsov the construction was resumed and continued rapidly. The bell tower was built according to the designs of the Italian architect Giuseppe and Gian Torricelli. In 1827 the church was finished first with a free-standing bell tower. During the 19th century, but still came to significant modifications and extensions, the bell tower was incorporated into the construction, and the church was converted into one of the largest Eastern Orthodox cathedrals with a capacity of 9,000 people.

After the establishment of the Soviet regime, the cathedral was plundered in 1919 and closed in 1932. 1936 Joseph Stalin ordered their destruction at: it was blown up in the night. Even during the Romanian rule in Odessa during the Second World War, there were considerations to rebuild the Transfiguration. 1999 was begun on 21 July 2010, the new building by the Russian Patriarch Kirill I could be consecrated.

The Transfiguration is one of the most famous examples of the so-called rebirth of religious buildings after the scheduled destruction and decades of Soviet rule.