St. Vladimir cathedral, Sevastopol(Sebastopol), Crimea(Crimée,Krym,Kirim,Krim,Qirim), Ukraine
In fact, there are two St. Vladimir Cathedrals in Sevastopol, first of them being St. Vladimir Cathedral - a burial vault of admirals.Vladimir's cathedral was supposed to be built in the territory of Chersonesus Monastery but Admiral Lazarev insisted that the temple was to be built within the limits of the city.
Nikolai II has chosen a site on the City hill and on 15 July 1854 laying out the foundations of the cathedral took place. The construction of the temple was interrupted during the Crimean war.
Part of the money (18.000 roubles) was collected by means of selling cannonballs picked up on the battlefields. In 1888 when the construction of the cathedral was completed, it was decided to set up a burial vault of the outstanding admirals of the Black sea Fleet. - M. Lazarev, P. Nakhimov, V. Kornilov, V. Istomin. The cathedral became a kind of monument to the defense of Sevastopol in 1854-1855.
Later in 1932 the cathedral was closed to lodge workshops and warehoused. The remains of the buried officers as the supporters of autocracy were liquidated.
In 1966 the decision to restore the building and give it to the museum of the heroic defense and liberation of Sevastopol was adopted. The tombstones were restored. Since 1991 the cathedral was returned to the believers.
The second St. Vladimir Cathedral was erected on the territory of Chersonesus Monastery soon after the construction of the cathedral in the City.
The cathedral was supposed to be completed to the celebration of the 900th anniversary of St. Vladimir's baptizing. The God's Mother Christmas Temple, where St. Vladimir was baptized was supposed to be exactly on that site.
The construction of the temple was completed in 1892 and 34 year later, in 1926, the cathedral was closed.
It was severely demolished during the Great Patriotic War, and it is said there were even attempts to explode the cathedral after the war.
The believers started to hold prayers in half-demolished temple in 1992 and only 10 years later the restoration of the cathedral was completed.
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