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Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Transfiguration of Our Lord is a historic Russian Orthodox cathedral at 228 North 12th Street in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City. The cathedral was designated a New York City landmark by the Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1969, and was listed on the National Register of Historic ...
Construction of the cathedral was ordered by empress Elizabeth of Russia and occurred from 1743 to 1754, based on a design by architect Mikhail Zemtsov.The cathedral was built in the place of an old barracks, that of the grenadier division of the Preobrazhensky regiment in honor of the Empress's ascension onto the throne with the help of some soldiers and officers of that regiment. [1]
Each of the cathedral's side towers is 45 m (148 feet) tall. [7] The building features three gilded towers, which represent the Trinity. The cathedral contains a 25-metre-wide (82-foot) mosaic of Christ Pantocrator, which occupies the entire dome of the cathedral, and a mosaic of the Virgin Mary, which covers the curved wall of the apse.
Transfiguration Cathedral, Pereslavl-Zalessky, a building of pre-Mongol Rus Transfiguration Cathedral, Rybinsk , one of the tallest church buildings in the world Transfiguration Cathedral (Yaroslavl) , the katholikon of the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery in Yaroslavl
The Transfiguration Cathedral's three-tiered bell tower, which has an observation deck and clock on the third tier, is crowned by an oval dome and spire that rises to a height of 73 metres (240 ft). The Donetsk Metallurgical Plant , managed by Sergei Samoilov, created the bells, which Metropolitan Vladimir of Kyiv and All Ukraine placed and ...
View of the Cathedral in 1858. The Jesuits arrived in the city in the 1549 and planned a Jesuit college under Father Manuel da Nóbrega (1517-1570). The Diocese of São Salvador da Bahia de Todos os Santos, the first in the Portuguese colony of Brazil, was created in 1551, only two years after the founding of Salvador by the Portuguese nobleman Tomé de Sousa.
The Transfiguration Cathedral in Odesa is the Orthodox Cathedral in Odesa, Ukraine, dedicated to the Transfiguration of Jesus and belongs to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate). It was severely damaged by a Russian missile attack on Odesa on July 23, 2023. [4]
The cathedral was considered a broad emblem of the vast socioeconomic and cultural changes occurring in the recently joined Southern Territory of the Russian Empire. [2] The National Russian Military Historical Archive in Moscow is home to the original Transfiguration Cathedral projects. It is thought that Claude Gerua, an architect, owns them.