The Cathedral of Divine Providence ( ro, Catedrala Romano-Catolică Providența Divină) is a religious building affiliated with the Catholic Church which is located in Chișinău,

Moldova Moldova ( , ; ), officially the Republic of Moldova ( ro, Republica Moldova), is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. The unrecognised state of Transnistr ...

, and is the see of the Diocese of Chișinău.Catedrala Providenţa Divină Cathedral of Divine Providence
/ref> The neoclassical church was built in 1836 by architect

Avraam Melnikov Abram or Avraam Melnikov (Авраам Иванович Мельников; 1784—1854) was a Russian Neoclassical architecture, Neoclassical architect associated with the late phase of the Empire style. His teachers at the Imperial Academy of Art ...

, thanks to grants by Tsar

Nicholas I of Russia , house = Romanov-Holstein-Gottorp , father = Paul I of Russia , mother = Maria Feodorovna (Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg) , birth_date = , birth_place = Gatchina Palace, Gatchina, Russian Empire , death_date = ...

. With the advent of Soviet power in 1944, all parish activities ceased, in 1963 the church was closed and the faithful were forced to go to a small chapel in the cemetery. In 1989, the building was returned to the parish. The church has been host since 1993 of the Apostolic Administration of Moldova, and since 2001 the newly established Diocese of Chișinău. A series of restoration works began in the spring of 2002 and ended in 2004.

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