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CHRIST THE SAVIOR CATHEDRAL

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2024
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The entire Russian campaign and the following years of the reconquest of Europe created in Tsar Alexander I a strong religious feeling with messianic overtones that led him to carry out a pharaonic project of a cathedral dedicated to the Holy Saviour to thank heaven for helping him defeat Napoleon. The work was initially planned on Sparrow Hill since 1817 on the site of the French field camp, but it was interrupted when Alexander died. The architect then experienced the reversal of fate of a court life and was condemned to exile in Siberia... compromising the entire project. It was not until 1839 that the new Tsar, Nicholas I, approved a new cathedral plan, this time in its present location on the banks of the Moskva River. Gargantuan, the construction took more than 20 years, the cathedral could be consecrated only in 1860 and became the preferred place of Orthodox worship of the power. Ironically, it served for only 70 years and was blown up under Stalin's orders in 1931 to erect a monument to the glory of communism... a project which, after his death, was converted into a huge Olympic swimming pool. In the mid-1990s, the Moscow City Council decided to rebuild the building. Today, the huge cathedral and seat of the patriarchate represents the renewed Russian faith, but it is not popular among Muscovites, who find it expensive and ugly.


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Geoffroy777
Visited in december 2018
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La cathédrale du Christ Saint Sauveur longe la rivière. Vous pouvez y aller depuis le Kremlin à pieds.
Trés jolie, vous pouvez en faire le tour ou la visiter.
Visited in october 2018
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Nous n'avons vu que l'extérieur mais c'est déjà sublime. Entre blanc et doré, elle se prête aux photos, surtout depuis le pont. Super !
nimar42
Visited in june 2018
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Endroit incontournable,l'intérieur est assez impressionnant,très belle architecture byzantine et orthodoxe.
Florent73
Visited in december 2016
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La cathédrale du Christ Saint Sauveur, sans doute la plus connue et la plus belle de Moscou. d'accès très rapide depuis le Kremlin, son intérieur est magnifique, cependant les photos y sont interdites...
lolo182
Visited in september 2016
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tres belle église, une des plus connue à Moscou. C'est tres rapide à faire à pied en provenant du Kremlin. Attention comme beaucoup d'eglise, il n'est pas possible de faire des photos à l'intérieur.

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