CATHEDRAL OF CHRIST THE SAVIOR, Cathedral Of Christ The Savior

Hi, my name’s Rick, and I’m your personal guide. Along with MyWoWo, I’d like to welcome you to one of the Wonders of the World, the spectacular Cathedral of Christ the Savior.

The Cathedral of Christ the Savior is the most important churches in the city because this is where the Orthodox Patriarch of Moscow celebrates mass. As you can see, the building is truly enormous. With its towering height of 104 meters, it is the tallest Christian temple of the Orthodox rite in the world and can hold 10,000 people.

However, the building you see before you was actually built in 2000, a reconstructed copy of the original church that was blown up on December 5, 1931 by Stalin, who in its place wanted to build a monument to socialism, called the Palace of the Soviets, which was never completed.

The original church was commissioned by Tsar Alexander I to celebrate the victory against Napoleon and to thank divine providence for saving the empire. The work did not begin immediately though; in fact, construction only began in 1839, 27 years after the end of the war and after lots of second thoughts....