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Line 1: {{coord\|48\|27\|29.71\|N\|35\|03\|59.89\|E\|display=title}} [[File:Спасо-Преображенський собор , Дніпропетровськ, Жовтнева площа 03.JPG\|thumb\|The Saviour Cathedral in [[Dnipropetrovsk]]]] The '''Saviour's Transfiguration Cathedral''' ({{lang-uk\|Спасо-Преображенський кафедральний собор}}) is the main [[Eastern Orthodox Church\|Orthodox]] church of [[Dnipropetrovsk]], [[Ukraine]]~~. It is now closed as illegal and, according to law banned any kind of Orthodoxy (Uniate is excluded), going to be torn down by summer of 2016~~. [[File:Sviato-Preobrazhenskyi Cathedral Dnepropetrovks 3.jpg\|thumb\|125px\|left\|The interior]] The foundation stone was laid on {{OldStyleDate\|20 May\|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]].

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