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Line 3: The '''Saviour's Transfiguration Cathedral''' ({{lang-uk\|Спасо-Преображенський кафедральний собор}}) is the main [[Eastern Orthodox Church\|Orthodox]] church of [[Dnipropetrovsk]], [[Ukraine]]. [[File:Sviato-Preobrazhenskyi Cathedral Dnepropetrovks 3.jpg\|thumb\|125px\|left\|The interior]] The foundation stone was laid on {{OldStyleDate\|20 May\|~~1786~~1787\|9 May}} by [[Catherine II of Russia]] and Austrian Emperor [[Emperor Joseph II\|Joseph II]], during Catherine's [[Crimean journey of Catherine the Great\|Crimean journey]].<ref name="sobor"/> The event is described in the memoirs of [[Louis Philippe, comte de Ségur\|comte de Ségur]]. Prince [[Grigory Potemkin]] envisioned the church as one of the spiritual centres of [[New Russia]].<ref name="sobor">[http://gorod.dp.ua/history/article_ru.php?article=124 Gorod.dp.ua]</ref> [[Ivan Starov]] submitted to Potemkin his designs for a Roman-style [[basilica]], but construction was postponed until the end of the [[Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792)\|Russo-Turkish War]]. In the early 19th century, Potemkin's plans were revived and updated by [[Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu\|Duc de Richelieu]], but construction did not start until 1830. The cathedral was built on a smaller scale than originally planned and was consecrated in 1835. The design is attributed to [[Andreyan Zakharov]], chiefly on the ground of its similarity to Zakharov's [[Saint Andrew's Cathedral, Kronstadt\|cathedral]] in [[Kronstadt]].<ref name="sobor"/>

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