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Moscow. Cathedral Of Christ The Saviour. Beautiful views of Moscow.
Cathedral of the Moscow diocese and the whole Russian Orthodox Church - the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour is located near the metro station "Kropotkinskaya". The area where it is located, is endowed with a powerful mystical power: no wonder here for centuries built various religious buildings, and it was here that people flocked in search of protection and assistance. This place used to be called Chertolye, in honour of the flowing at the bottom of the ravine of the Creek Centory. During the reign of Ivan the terrible here was the Alekseevsky convent, and in the 1830s it was decided to move to another place.
The present Church of Christ the Savior is the second one built on this site. The first was built in 1883 in honor of the victory over Napoleon, it was built more than forty years. The builders overcame various difficulties: fires, Foundation collapses, flooding with groundwater. After the opening of the temple lasted less than fifty years: December 5, 1931, he was blown up by the Bolsheviks. Part of the external white-stone bas-reliefs, later built into the wall of the Donskoy monastery, has been preserved.
At this point, the authorities decided to build the Moscow Palace of Soviets - one of the most famous unrealized architectural projects in history. The tallest building in the world was to become a symbol of victorious socialism, a symbol of a new country and a new Moscow. It was assumed that the size of the building will exceed 400 meters, and on its roof will be installed a rotating statue of Lenin.
In the years of perestroika, it was decided to restore the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in its original place, exactly corresponding to the original. The pool was dismantled, and in the mid-1990s the construction of a new temple began. The beginning of the new Millennium was marked by the opening of the restored Church of Christ the Saviour, where the miraculous shrines were transferred. Many people are convinced that the revival of the Holy place was made possible only through the intervention of higher forces. And the place where it is located, is endowed with a powerful mystical power: not without reason here for centuries built various religious buildings, and it was here that people flocked in search of protection and assistance.