The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour is the principal Orthodox church in

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. It dominates the Cyril and Methodius Square in the city of

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. The 60-metre-tall five-domed church was built in the 1990s after the cathedral of the Holy Cross had been restituted to the

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. The modern building can hold up to 5000 worshippers. Its ground floor contains a chapel dedicated to the

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. The arch-priest is Dmytro Sydor. The cathedral belongs to

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of the

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. In 2008 the building was raided by the national security agency on suspicion of

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