Orthodox cathedral of The Lord's Resurrection, Eastern Orthodox cathedral in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia.
The Cathedral of the Resurrection of the Lord is a brick Orthodox church at the corner of Kommunistichesky Prospekt and Komsomolskaya Street, designed by architect S. Michenko. It was built on a cross plan with a dome at the crossing and originally followed the architecture of Novgorod churches. A 2002–2003 reconstruction added a bell tower with a golden cupola, spacious choirs and a larger refectory and narthex.
The site was consecrated in August 1990 by Metropolitan Pitirim of Volokolamsk and Yuryev, but construction stalled for lack of funds and resumed only in 1992. The first liturgy was held at Christmas 1995; the cathedral served as the seat of the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and Kuril eparchy from 1995 to 2016. A 2002–2003 reconstruction added a bell tower and enlarged the refectory and narthex.
The cathedral functions as the main religious center for the Orthodox community in Sakhalin Oblast, conducting regular services according to Eastern Orthodox traditions.
The cathedral stands at the corner of Kommunistichesky Avenue and Komsomolskaya Street, on Boulevard Svyatitelya Innokentiya, 3. The main entrance faces the boulevard; the lower church of the Renewal of the Resurrection of Jerusalem, consecrated in 1998, is reached from inside. The bell tower added in 2002–2003 rises beside the main volume.
On the cathedral grounds stands an Armenian khachkar, a carved cross-stone of Armenian tuff made by stonecutters from the Ararat Valley and installed in 2005. A memorial with a veneration cross beside the cathedral honours Governor Igor Farkhutdinov, who died in a helicopter crash on 20 August 2003 along with fourteen other regional officials.
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