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Photograph of Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Warsaw shortly after completion in 1912. The St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral (Polish: Sobór św. Aleksandra Newskiego, Russian: Александро-Невский собор) was a Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Saxon Square [1] built in Warsaw, Congress Poland, then a part of the Russian Empire.
Interior of cathedral, 1836, by Marcin Zaleski Interior of cathedral. The profuse Early Baroque decoration inside from the beginning of the 17th century and magnificent painting on the main altar by Palma il Giovane depicting Virgin and Child with St. John the Baptist and St. Stanisław were destroyed in German bombing of the church on August 17, 1944. [5]
St. Alexander's Church prior to destruction in World War II, c. 1890–1900.. This article is a list of places of worship in Warsaw, Poland, both current and historical.It includes Catholic, Uniate, Protestant and Orthodox churches, as well as synagogues and shrines of other denominations.
The first fortified settlements on the site of today's Warsaw were Bródno (9th or 10th century), Kamion (11th century) and Jazdów (12th or 13th century). [1] Bródno was a small settlement in the north-eastern part of today's Warsaw, burned about 1040 during the uprising of Miecław, one of the Mazovian local princes.
Holy Trinity Church, Warsaw, of Evangelical Church of Augsburg Confession in Poland. Lutheran Church of Peace in Jawor- UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in the Republic of Poland (Polish: Kościół Ewangelicko-Augsburski w Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej) is a Lutheran denomination and the largest Protestant body in Poland with about 61,000 members and ...
In the following decades, about 6000 Mennonites, most of them from the delta settlements, [12] left for Russia, forming the roots of the Russian Mennonites. [13] The first Mennonite settlement in Russia, Chortitza Colony, was founded by these emigrees in 1789. [2] The Mennonites who remained in the Vistula delta assimilated more and more.
Dating back to 1936 the Warsaw Historical Museum contains 60 rooms which host a permanent exhibition of the history of Warsaw from its origins until today. The 17th century Royal Ujazdów Castle houses the Centre for Contemporary Art, with some permanent and temporary exhibitions, concerts, shows and creative workshops. The Centre realizes ...
Throughout the history of early and imperial Russia there were, however, religious movements which posed a challenge to the monopoly of the Russian Orthodox Church and put forward stances of freedom of conscience, namely the Old Believers—who separated from the Russian Orthodox Church after Patriarch Nikon's reform in 1653 (the Raskol ...