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Cathedral of the Holy Spirit

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The Cathedral of the Holy Spirit is now a Ukrainian Orthodox church of the Moscow Patriarchate. The cathedral was designed by the Viennese architect Anton Röll and built within twenty years (1844-1864). The construction manager was the royal district engineer Adolf Marin. The façade was redesigned by the Czech architect Josef Hlavka in 1860. The cathedral is built in the Italian Renaissance style. In the centre of the building is a 46-metre-high dome. The church also has two smaller domes. The northern part is completed by two bell towers. The church was painted by the Austrian artist Karl Jobst.

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1844 - 1864

The church was closed by the Soviet nomenklatura in 961 and turned into an art museum in 1970. The paintings in the lower part of the church were destroyed, but the original frescoes still exist in the upper part. The clocks that originally adorned the two bell towers have also been lost. The building was consecrated as a church in 1999.

The Greek Orthodox church was consecrated in 1860 by Bishop Eugen Hackmann (rum. Eugenie Hacman), Archbishop of Chernivtsi and the first Metropolitan of Bukovina and Dalmatia. Hackmann campaigned hard for the separation of Bukovina from Galicia. After the creation of the Crown Land of Bukovina, Hackmann was appointed the first governor of Bukovina. A monument to him was erected in the courtyard of the cathedral in 2006.

Text: Kateryna Stetsevych