St. Vladimir's Cathedral (Edmonton)
St. Vladimir Cathedral or St. Volodymyr Cathedral may refer to: *St. Volodymyr's Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral (Toronto), Canada *St. Vladimir's Cathedral, Paris, France *St. Vladimir's Cathedral (Saint Petersburg), Russia *St. Vladimir's Cathedral, Chersonesus, Ukraine *St Volodymyr's Cathedral, Kyiv, Ukraine *St. Vladimir's Cathedral, Sevastopol, Ukraine *St. Vladimir's Cathedral (Stamford, Connecticut), United States See also

*St Vladimir's Church, Moscow, Russia {{disambig, church ...
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St Volodymyr's Cathedral
St Volodymyr's Cathedral ( uk, Володимирський собор, russian: Владимирский собор) is a cathedral in the centre of Kyiv. It is one of the city's major landmarks and the mother cathedral of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate, one of the churches of Orthodox tradition in Ukraine. History and description In 1852, Metropolitan Philaret of Moscow suggested a large cathedral should be built in Kyiv to commemorate the 900th anniversary of the baptism of Kievan Rus by prince Vladimir I of Kiev (St. Volodymyr). People from all over the Russian Empire started donating to this cause, so that by 1859 the cathedral fund had amassed a huge sum of 100,000 rubles. The Kyiv Pechersk Lavra (Monastery of the Caves) produced one million bricks and presented them to the cathedral as well. The design was executed in neo-Byzantine style initially by the architects I. Schtrom, P. Sparro, R. Bemhardt, K. Mayevsky, V. Nikolayev. The final version of t ...
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