Cathedral of Christ the Saviour

Cathedral of Christ the Saviour
Храм Христа Спасителя Khram Khrista Spasitelya
The new Cathedral of Christ the Saviour as viewed from the bridge over the Moscow River
Cathedral of Christ the Saviour
55°44′40″N 37°36′20″E / 55.74444°N 37.60556°E / 55.74444; 37.60556
Location	Moscow, Russia
Denomination	Russian Orthodox Church
Website	www.xxc.ru
History
Consecrated	19 August 2000
Architecture
Style	Russian Revival
Specifications
Capacity	10,000 people[1]
Length	79 m (length-width)[1]
Height	103.4 m (top cross)[2] 91.5 (top dome)[2] 69.5 (dome ceiling)[2]
Nave height	37 m (interior)[1]
Other dimensions	194,900 m3 [2]
Floor area	3,980 m2[3]
Dome diameter (outer)	29.8 m[2]

The Cathedral of Christ the Savior (Russian: Храм Христа́ Спаси́теля, tr. Khram Khristá Spasítelya, IPA: [xram xrʲɪˈsta spɐˈsʲitʲɪlʲə]), is a Russian Orthodox cathedral located in Moscow on Sparrow Hill, on the banks of the Moskva River, it is known for having been demolished in the 1930s for the construction of the Palace of the Soviets, which was never made.^[4]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} "Храм Христа Спасителя". Archived from the original on 2020-07-27. Retrieved 2022-04-09.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4} "Основные размеры Храма Христа Спасителя".
3. ↑ Sidorov, Dmitri (2000). "National Monumentalization and the Politics of Scale: The Resurrections of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow". Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 90 (3): 548–572. doi:10.1111/0004-5608.00208. JSTOR 1515528. S2CID 144856387.
4. ↑ "ХРАМ ХРИСТА СПАСИТЕЛЯ". www.xxc.ru. Archived from the original on 2 December 2010. Retrieved 5 January 2018.