Cathedral of the Most Holy Trinity, Buenos Aires, Eastern Orthodox cathedral in San Telmo, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The Cathedral of the Most Holy Trinity is a Russian Orthodox church on Brasil Street facing Lezama Park in San Telmo, built of brick painted white and bright blue. Five blue onion domes with gold stars and Orthodox crosses rise on white cylindrical drums with tall narrow arched windows; the central dome is largest, with four smaller ones around it. A mosaic of two haloed figures with staffs sits in a blue arched frame on the facade.
The first Orthodox church in South America opened in 1888 in two rooms on Talcahuano Street; the present church was laid in 1898 to a design by Mikhail Preobrazhensky of the Holy Synod, built by Alejandro Christophersen and consecrated on 6 October 1901 before President Julio Argentino Roca. Nicholas II gave 5,000 rubles toward it.
Services are held in Church Slavonic and Spanish, a practice dating from the parish's founding as a Russian Orthodox mission in South America. The parish was established in 1888 and the present church consecrated in 1901. Its name comes from the icon of the Holy Trinity kept beside the east-facing altar, with the choir stalls to the left.
The church stands on Brasil Street at number 315, between Defensa and Balcarce, facing Lezama Park and the National Historical Museum. The temple itself is on the first floor, reached by a decorated door to the left of the facade. Services are held in Church Slavonic and Spanish.
A bronze relief on the front of the building reproduces the entire facade in miniature form, serving as an unusual architectural detail. The entrance door positioned on the left side leads to the altar area, which faces eastward following traditional Orthodox orientation.
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