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XE3F4344 - Catedral de Cristo Salvador, Moscú - Cathedral of Christ the Saviour , Moscow - Храм Христа Спасителя, Москва

Catedral de Cristo Salvador, Moscú - Cathedral of Christ the Saviour , Moscow - Храм Христа Спасителя, Москва

 

La catedral de Cristo Salvador (Redentor) de Moscú, cuya denominación oficial es Templo Catedralicio del Cristo Salvador (Redentor) del Patriarca de Moscú (en ruso Кафедральный Соборный Храм Христа Спасителя Патриарха Московского), es un templo de la Iglesia Ortodoxa Rusa situado en la ciudad de Moscú, construido en el siglo XIX según el proyecto del arquitecto Konstantín Ton. Se trata, además, de la iglesia ortodoxa más alta del mundo.

La catedral se encuentra en el centro de Moscú, cerca del Kremlin y sobre la orilla del río Moscova. Su construcción demoró casi 44 años y en 1883 se abrió al culto. En 1931 el templo fue destruido hasta los cimientos con explosivos, para dar lugar a la construcción del Palacio de los Sóviets. La iglesia fue reconstruida en la década de 1990 y volvió a ser consagrada en el año 2000.

 

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The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour (Russian: Храм Христа Спасителя, Khram Khrista Spasitelya) is a Russian Orthodox cathedral in Moscow, Russia, on the northern bank of the Moskva River, a few hundred metres southwest of the Kremlin. With an overall height of 103 metres (338 ft), it is the tallest Orthodox Christian church in the world.

The current church is the second to stand on this site. The original church, built during the 19th century, took more than 40 years to build, and was the scene of the 1882 world premiere of the 1812 Overture composed by Tchaikovsky. It was destroyed in 1931 on the order of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. The demolition was supposed to make way for a colossal Palace of the Soviets to house the country's legislature, the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. Construction started in 1937 but was halted in 1941 when Germany invaded the Soviet Union during World War II. Its steel frame was disassembled the following year, and the Palace was never built. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the current church was rebuilt on the site between 1995 and 2000.

In 2018, it was reported that the foundations of the church were sinking and a massive campaign of underpinning and reconstruction was needed.

 

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