Online camera Magadan. Cathedral Square, Cathedral of the Life-Giving Trinity
Magadan's Cathedral Square was formerly named after Lenin and decorated with a three-meter statue of the leader, but in the early 2000s the statue was dismantled and moved to a new place - Cosmonauts Square, and the square itself was renamed in honor of the Cathedral of the Life-Giving Trinity.
The Cathedral of the Life-Giving Trinity in Magadan is the largest Orthodox church in the Far East and has become a real decoration of the city. The cathedral is a two-story five-domed temple with a postakomar conclusion. In appearance it resembles the Moscow Cathedral of Christ the Savior and is considered one of the highest in the country: its total height is more than 70 meters, so the cathedral is clearly visible from anywhere in the city.
Until 1985 on the site of the present cathedral was the building of the House of Soviets, which construction was never completed. Construction of the cathedral began in 2001 and was completed seven years later. The upper part of the cathedral was almost entirely built on the basis of the unfinished House of Soviets. A partially dismantled metal frame was used as a basis of the cathedral's bearing structures.
Volumetric-spatial composition of the Life-Giving Trinity Cathedral, as well as its proportions were designed according to the sizes of surrounding buildings, which successfully influenced the building-up of the square in front of the cathedral. The walls of the cathedral are five-arched and have two tiers of the arched windows. On both sides from the main entrance of the cathedral there are chapels. Paintings of the interior of the cathedral were made by artists of the Palekh icon painting workshop. The two great treasures of the cathedral - icons for the iconostasis, 3 meters high, were painted by the best icon painters of the Trinity Sergius Lavra.
