Alexandro-Nevsky Cathedral - Orthodox Cathedral in honor of the Holy Prince Alexander Nevsky in Tsaritsyno . The prototype for the construction of the cathedral was the Kazan Cathedral in Orenburg .
| Cathedral Alexander Nevsky | |
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| A country | Russian empire |
| Address | Saratov province , Tsaritsyn , Alexander square |
| Denomination | Orthodoxy |
| Patriarchy | Russian Orthodox Church |
| Diocese | Saratov and Astrakhan |
| Consecrated | May 18, 1918 |
| Project Author | Yashchenko A.A. |
| Building | 1901 - 1916 |
| Abolished | March 21, 1932 |
It was built at the beginning of the 20th century after a miraculous rescue in the railway accident of Tsar Alexander III , whose holy patron was the Holy Prince Alexander Nevsky [1] . The cathedral was located on Alexandrovskaya Square Tsaritsyna. The temple was built on donations of 15 years (the first stone was laid in 1901, construction was completed in 1916). Consecrated the temple in 1918. It was a huge building for the low-rise Tsaritsyn - the height of an 18-story building, 51 meters long and about 42 meters wide [2] .
In 1932, during the beautification of the central square of the city, the cathedral was blown up.
New construction has begun on a new location (in a park area near the area of the Fallen Fighters ) [3] .
Content
Priests
Archpriest Jacob Gorokhov (1880-1921) [4] .
Image in Literature
In the novel of front-line writer Ivan Drozdov about the events of the 1930s in the USSR, “Ice font” [5], the fate of the blown up Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Volgograd is identified with the fate of Russian culture and tradition.
Notes
- ↑ Volgograd Diocese Archival copy of July 25, 2008 on the Wayback Machine .
- ↑ Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Tsaritsyno.
- ↑ Volgograd plans to recreate Alexander Nevsky Cathedral (inaccessible link) .
- ↑ Antonov D. D. Biography of Archpriest Jacob Gorokhov . Official site of the Volgograd Diocese (03/20/2017).
- ↑ Ivan Drozdov. Ice font . - 2000.
Literature
- Materikin A.V. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral: pages of the history of the first Tsaritsyno Cathedral. - Volga. , 2017 .-- 259 p.
- Ivanov S. M., Suprun V. I. Orthodoxy on the Volgograd land: the churches of Tsaritsyn - Stalingrad - Volgograd. - Volgograd: VGIPK RO, 2003 .-- 240 p.