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Image of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow. Russia.
The Cathedral of Christ the Savior today is the Cathedral and, in fact, the main temple of Russia. Here the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia celebrates divine services, Bishops' Councils and other church forums meet. The dramatic fate of the temple made it not only a monument to those who fell in 1812 (as originally conceived), but also a testimony to the complex ups and downs in the history of Russia in the XX century. The Cathedral of Christ the Savior is on the balance sheet of the Moscow mayor's office, which handed over the temple to the Russian Orthodox Church for unlimited use. The Cathedral of Christ the Savior is a memorial temple, it was erected in honor of the victory and in memory of those who fell in the war of 1812. According to tradition, such votive temples were built in honor of church holidays or in honor of a saint. But this temple was erected in the name of the Savior himself. According to the idea of Alexander Vitberg, the first architect of the cathedral, the temple was supposed to be majestic and colossal, and its glory was to surpass that of Peter's Cathedral in Rome.
Construction on the project of Konstantin Ton began in 1839 and was completed only in 1881. During the years of Stalin's regime, the temple was blown up, and in its place the Palace of Soviets was supposed to appear - a huge building crowned with a sculpture of Lenin. The war prevented the implementation of the grandiose idea, and after its end, funds for the Palace were no longer found, and from a political point of view, the structure lost its relevance. In 1960, an outdoor swimming pool "Moscow" appeared on the site of the cathedral, which existed until 1994. In connection with this pool, the water in which was not particularly clean, they recall the legend of a nun who, opposing the construction of a temple on the site of the Alekseevsky Monastery, cursed the construction site and predicted that a huge muddy puddle would be located on the site of the temple.
In the early 90s, already in new Russia, they decided to build the temple anew. The restorer Alexei Denisov carried out painstaking work to restore the historical appearance of the cathedral according to the surviving drawings, drawings and measurements, but due to disagreements about the appearance of the cathedral, it was removed from work. The completion of the temple was supervised by Zurab Tsereteli, who decided to carry out the external decoration of the walls in bronze, although in the history of Russian church architecture there is not a single example when metal was used in this case. The temple was completed, but this is not the same temple that stood here a hundred years ago, despite the outward resemblance. The decoration of the temple was conceived by Ton as a chronicle of the Patriotic War of 1812 in the plots of the Gospel, but now this kind of stone book cannot be read without referring to archival sources.
The Pochaiv Lavra of God's Mother Dormition is an Orthodox Monastery in Poczajów, Ukraine. It is under the jurisdiction of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, the most important center of Orthodox monastic life in Volhynia and Ukraine.
The history of the monastery dates back to the 13th and even the 12th century. Initially, there was a hermitage here, then an Orthodox monastery, then a Uniate Basilian monastery and again an Orthodox church of the Moscow rite. Its history is turbulent, as is the political history of these lands.
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Ławra Poczajowska Zaśnięcia Matki Bożej w Poczajowie jest prawosławnym klasztorem w Poczajowie na Ukrainie. Podlega jurysdykcji Ukraińskiego Kościoła Prawosławnego Patriarchatu Moskiewskiego, najważniejszy ośrodek prawosławnego życia monastycznego na Wołyniu i Ukrainie.
Historia monastyru sięga XIII wieku a nawet XII wieku. Początkowo była tutaj pustelnia, później kolejno klasztor prawosławny, unicki Bazylianów i ponownie prawosławny obrządku moskiewskiego. Jego historia jest burzliwa, podobnie jak historia polityczna tych ziem.
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Exploring Russian Pacific (just 25 miles North of Japan).
Island of Sakhalin
From my 2005 Archive.
Die armenisch-apostolische Sankt-Hripsime-Kirche in Etschmiadsin Armenien wurde von Katholikos Komitas über dem von Isaak dem Großen gebauten Mausoleum der heiligen Hripsime errichtet und laut Inschriften über dem Westeingang und unter der Ostapsis sowie Angaben des Historikers und Zeitzeugen Sebeos im Jahr 618 vollendet. Die Kirche ist eine der ältesten erhaltenen des Landes und stellt einen vollständig ummantelten Tetrakonchos mit Strebenischen in den vier Ecken dar. Die frühchristliche armenische Sakralarchitektur hat in der Folge eine stilprägende Wirkung entfaltet. Die Hripsime-Kirche ist seit 2000 als UNESCO-Weltkulturerbe gelistet.
(Auszug Wikipedia)
orthodox - conforming to established doctrine especially in religion
Holy Transfiguration Russian Orthodox Church in Los Angeles, California
Location: Svidník, Slovakia. The orthodox church "Temple of the Holy Trinity" was built in the year 1993-94. The district town of Svidník is located in the northern part of the Low Beskid about 20 km east from the Bardejov. The town was founded in 1944 by the merger of two villages on opposite banks of the river Ladomirky, on the left bank it was Nižný and on the right Vyšný Svidník.
Brother Samuel gave us a tour of of an orthodox chapel at Lepanto and told us about the history of the orthodox church. This is really amazingly colourful. But don't take my word for it, go take a look for yourself!
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On Sunday we had a Christening at this Church,
This was our Parish years ago, I got married and Christened my first son here as well,
Together with the Pyatnitskaya church, the church forms a single ensemble. The temple was built in 1707 on the site of a dilapidated wooden church. The building was built in classic style. The walls of the temple are smooth. The windows are decorated with carved platbands and are located at the same height as the windows of the neighboring Pyatnitskaya church.