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CHRIST THE SAVIOUR CATHEDRAL
| Description | : | The original cathedral was built to commemorate the war of 1812 and took 44 years (1839-83) to complete. However, the majestic structure stood for only four years longer than it took to build. Many churches were destroyed under dictator Josef Stalin’s rule and the 103-metre-tall cathedral crumbled in a mass of rubble on Dec. 5, 1931. Stalin had planned to build a 480-metre-tall Palace of Soviets on the site. Construction began in 1939, but was interrupted by the Second World War and never completed. In 1960, an open-air pool was built using the foundation and, in 1991, a decision was finally made to rebuild the cathedral. Reconstruction
began on Dec. 25, 1995 and was completed in 2000, at a cost of more than $250 million. The results are spectacular and worth a day’s viewing. Services are conducted on weekends and religious holidays in the main cathedral and daily in a smaller church downstairs. Original size 11x17@300@dpi |
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