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Tiraspol Tiraspol or Tirișpolea ( ro, Tiraspol, Moldovan Cyrillic: Тираспол, ; russian: Тира́споль, ; uk, Тирасполь, Tyraspol') is the capital of Transnistria (''de facto''), a breakaway state of Moldova, where it is the th ...

, the capital of

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. It is a

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completed in 1999 to serve as the

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of the Orthodox Christian Diocese of Tiraspol. Celebrations marking the completion of the cathedral included, among other things, the issuing of a series of postage stamps featuring the church (see Transnistrian stamps issued for

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1999). In 2001, the cathedral's image was displayed on the principal

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struck for a commemorative series of

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and

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currency featuring Orthodox Temples of Transnistria.

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Orthodox Wiki Diocese of Tiraspol-Dubossary
Cathedrals in Transnistria Churches completed in 1999 20th-century Eastern Orthodox church buildings

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