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[[File:SviatoПанораму двору Спасо-PreobrazhenskyiПреображенського Cathedralкафедрального собору.jpg|thumb|325px|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]]. [[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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== References ==

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File:NSH Dnipropetrovs'k Spaso-Preobrazhenskiy sobor 001.JPG|The belltower

File:Sviato-Preobrazhenskyi Cathedral Dnepropetrovks 2.jpg|The interior

File:Spaso Preobrazhensky Cathedral Dnepropetrovsk. 03.JPG|The [[Eye of Providence]] on the pediment

File:Преображенский Собор.jpg|One of the gates to the cathedral compound

File:Sviato-Preobrazhenskyi Cathedral Dnepropetrovks 3.jpg|Candles burning

</gallery></center>

==External links==

* [http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=eb88a2fa20eafde781b0d56f7467d8ca 3D-model ''Transfiguration Cathedral, Dnipropetrovs'k'' in the '3D Buildings' layer inside Google Earth]

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