The Church of St. Alexander Nevsky - Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Nizhny Novgorod, built before 1880 by architect L. Dahl.
July 20, 1881 construction was completed and the cathedral was consecrated in the presence of Emperor Alexander III, his wife Maria Feodorovna , and Crown Prince Nicholas .
The temple stood out because he did not have direct parish , his parishioners - the merchants who came to the fair.For this reason the main room was open only during the fair , and not heated in winter . Worked just heated winter church and Macarius Zheltovodskogo Unzhenskogo .
The temple was a meeting place for dignitaries of the city - the royal family, the hierarchs of the Orthodox Church.In the church the miraculous icon of Our Lady of Holy Cross and the Lord , attached to many suffering from paralysis and other diseases.
In 1983, the restoration of the cathedral began in this period took an active part of voluntary restoration . In 1989, the restoration of the temple torn tents .
In February 1991, was created in the name of the Brotherhood of Saint Blessed Grand Prince Alexander Nevsky, and in June 1992, the cathedral was returned to the Church .
From 1992 to the winter chapel of St Macarius began the service.December 30, 1998 Metropolitan Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas Nicholas blessed Alexander Nevsky central altar of the church . April 24, 1999 the chapel was consecrated by the Mariinsky , and May 18 - St. Nicholas Chapel . Worship services began to occur in the main room of the cathedral , but the restoration continues.
For the cathedral had to develop a new design of the iconostasis , as the secret of old masters, install and secure in the last century 23- meter long - eight-story building with ! - iconostasis , could be opened . The external decoration of the iconostasis of the attempt to recover the old surviving photographs.
September 8, 2009 , Archbishop George celebrated the Divine Liturgy , and by its end, consecrated the new cathedral icon of the Image of the Saviour - a list of the miraculous image Tutayev Merciful Saviour , written in the tradition of icon painting workshop .
September 12, 2009 Cathedral in honor of St. Alexander Nevsky in Nizhny Novgorod, given the status of cathedral .
In October 2009, completed painting prayer room in a boarding school for Avtozavodskoye children with developmental problems . Boarding ministers to the arrival of the cathedral from the late 1990s .
of interior painting of the cathedral began in April 2010. Completion of work scheduled for 2010 , the total area is 11 thousand paintings m ².
It is planned reconstruction of the area around the cathedral in order to improve its accessibility.
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