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The '''Saviour's Transfiguration Cathedral''' ({{lang-uk|Спасо-Преображенський кафедральний собор}}) is the main [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox]] church of [[Dnipro]], [[Ukraine]].

==History==

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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The church was closed to worshippers in 1930 and housed a museum of [[atheism]] between 1975 and 1988. The building was damaged by an [[earthquake]] in 1888 and by bombs during the [[Second World War]].<ref>[http://ua.vlasenko.net/_pgs/dnipropetrovska.html UA.vlasenko.net]</ref>

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==External links==

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

{{Cathedrals of Ukraine}}

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[[Category:Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) cathedrals]]

[[Category:Tourist attractions in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast]]

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