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The Holy Trinity Cathedral is an Orthodox cathedral in the city of Dnieper, built in the 19th century according to the design of Ludwig Charlemagne-Bode and Peter Visconti. Throughout the XIX century it was called the Trinity Church, the Church of the Descent of the Holy Spirit.

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Holy Trinity Cathedral was built on the site of the first city church in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God. A small wooden church, consecrated on January 15, 1791, 40 years later collapsed, and the city merchants turned to St. Petersburg architects Ludwig Charlemagne-Bode and Peter Visconti, who designed the Assumption Church, for help. Architects simultaneously executed a new project and this one, the merchant.

The place for the new temple was consecrated in 1837. In 1862, construction began on the bell tower, which became the tallest building in Yekaterinoslav of that time. At the end of the XIX century, the building of the temple and the bell tower were interconnected. Later the houses of the parish and parochial school were built.

In the second half of the XIX century, the cathedral served as the city parish church. According to the Diocesan Register, the parish of the cathedral consisted of three priests, one deacon, and several psalm-readers. The clergy, in addition to direct priestly duties, took part in the work of church administrative institutions, was engaged in teaching and preaching.

In the late 1900s, major repairs were carried out in the temple. In the years of Soviet power, after the Transfiguration Cathedral was closed, the pulpit of the ruling bishop moved here. The bishop's house is located next door, on Krasnaya Street; Vladyka Agapit became its first inhabitant.

In the 1930s, during the struggle with religion in the USSR, the cathedral was closed. The building was given under the feed warehouse. During this period, the walls of the temple were cut for the construction of tiers, decking. Temperature changes, dirt caused great damage to the interior of the cathedral, especially paintings.

Divine services were resumed in 1941, after the city was occupied by German troops, and never stopped. In 1943, during the liberation of the city by Soviet troops, the rector of the church, Archpriest Vladimir Kapustinsky, died (before the revolution he was an inspector of the diocesan women’s school and the head of Vvedenskaya church). On October 27, 1943, two days after the liberation of Dnepropetrovsk, the protodeacon Hilarion was shot in the courtyard of the church (his grave is located on the territory of the cathedral).

Since 1944, the church is restored and repaired. At about the same time, the Dnepropetrovsk diocese was reorganized, and the cathedral became cathedral, that is, the seat of the ruling bishop. Raising the status of the cathedral allowed the start of major restoration work begun in 1956.

The arrangement of the external and internal decoration of the church and the improvement of the surrounding territory in our time are conducted by the rector, Archpriest Vladimir Aksyutin, thanks to the support of Vladyka Iriney, who heads the diocese since 1993.

Diocesan bishops Andrei (Komarov), Barlaam (Ilyuschenko), Kronid (Mishchenko), priors of the cathedral, shot by Protodeacon Hilarion, as well as residents of the city who were victims of German bombings in 1941, are buried near the cathedral walls.

In the cathedral there are shrines: the icon of the Holy Trinity with a particle of Mamvriysky oak, the icon of the “Weeping Savior”, the icons of the Mother of God “Iverskaya”, “Kazan”, “Worthy is”, “Samara”, two crosses-reliquaries with relics of saints revered in Orthodoxy. Among the relics, the iconostasis of the Kazan Church and the tomb of St. Nicholas (Bryansk) Cathedral are preserved.

In the cathedral, there are daily services, the requirements are made. On holidays in the morning - two services: at 7 and 9 o'clock in the morning. On Sundays, at evening service, the akathist is read, and on the Sabbath days the anointing is performed by the ruling bishop.

Literature

 * Theodosius (Makarevsky), Bishop Materials for the historical and statistical description of the Ekaterinoslav Diocese. Churches and parishes of the past XVIII century. - Dnepropetrovsk: BAT Dniprobook, 2000. Diocesan statements of the Ekaterinoslav Diocese. - 1872: official and unofficial departments. The whole Ekaterinoslav: reference book. - Ekaterinoslav: ed. L.I. Satanovsky, 1913. Y. Skalozub. History of the Ekaterinoslav Diocese - Dnipropetrovsk: Sich, 2001 p.

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