The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour

The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour

The history of the Kaliningrad Cathedral of Christ the Saviour began on April 30, 1995, the day of the celebration of the 10th anniversary of Orthodoxy in Kaliningrad. On that day, a city-wide religious procession was held from the Exaltation of the Holy Cross Cathedral to Victory Square. After the moleben in the place of the future church, Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad (now His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia) consecrated a stone and a seven-meter wooden cross was installed. The future cathedral was to become a symbol of Orthodoxy on the Kaliningrad land. It was conceived as the first in the city temple built in accordance with the canons of Russian Orthodox architecture, i.e. a five-domed gold-domed white stone cathedral similar to the temples of the Pskov Kremlin. The architectural structure of the ensemble of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour is designed in the style of Vladimir-Suzdal temple architecture, which successfully harmonizes with the achievements in the field of modern architecture and design. The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour built by all the forces of our society, power, entrepreneurship and people, is a testimony of spiritual revival, a symbol of national unity and the Face of Russian statehood on the west of its borders.

The information has been taken on the official site of the temple - soborkld.ru