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	Cathedral of Christ the Saviour (Moscow) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The lower church (Church of the Transfiguration) was consecrated in 1996, and the completed Cathedral of Christ the Saviour was consecrated August 19, 2000.
		The Monument to Alexander II by the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour
		Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow: A Russian Allegory
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cathedral_of_Christ_the_Saviour_(Moscow) (530 words)

	THE CATHEDRAL OF CHRIST THE SAVIOUR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It was built in Moscow for it was this city which had borne the greatest burden of the French army's attacks, and had become the fiery grave of Napoleon's ambition.
		This called for the construction of a three-tiered cathedral with three altars dedicated to Christ's Nativity, Transfiguration and Ascension, In Vitberg's design, the lower level church of Christ's Nativity was to be a burial vault for Russian soldiers.
		The new Emperor Nicholas I did not forget his brother's promise to build this cathedral in Moscow, but he preferred the idea of Konstantin Ton to build a mighty five-domed cathedral in 'Russo-Byzantine' style, that is, in the tradition of old Russian architecture.
	www.moskva.ru /guide/churchs/hrhrspas1e.html (472 words)

	Moscow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Moscow is also well known as the site of the Saint Basil's Cathedral, with its elegant onion domes, as well as the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.
		The Patriarch of Moscow, whose residence is the Danilov Monastery, serves as the head of the Russian Orthodox Church.
		Moscow is divided into ten administrative districts, of which only nine are located geographically in the city and one corresponds to a satellite city of Zelenograd (although being categorized as a city and separated geographically from the rest of Moscow, administratively Zelenograd is part of the Russian capital).
	www.higiena-system.com /wiki/link-Moscow (5122 words)

	Cathedral Of Christ the Saviour
		The rebuilding of the church was the centerpiece of a huge renovation scheme in the Russian capital pursued by its mayor, Yuri Luzhkov.
		During a ceremony to lay the cathedral's cornerstone Luzhkov said "Let the reconstruction of the main cathedral stand as symbolic proof of hundreds of destroyed churches and millions of lost lives".
		The cathedral has been rebuilt on the site of the Moskva Open-air Swimming Pool, opposite the Pushkin Fine Arts Museum, where for thirty years Muscovites have swam, all year round, in the world's largest open-air swimming pool, where the water was kept at 27 C even in the depths of the Russian winter.
	rossiya_david.tripod.com /id21.htm (974 words)

	THE CATHEDRAL OF CHRIST THE SAVIOUR MOSCOW RUSSIA EXCURSION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		THE CATHEDRAL OF CHRIST THE SAVIOUR MOSCOW RUSSIA EXCURSION
		The enormous gleaming golden dome and gigantic structure of the newly built Cathedral of Christ the Savior is visible from all over central Moscow and is the largest church in Russia.
		Clad in marble and granite, with huge bronze doors covered in relief depictions of the saints, the cathedral is an awesome statement of the re-found power and prestige of the Orthodox Church and one of Moscow's most impressive ecclesiastical buildings.
	www.voentour.com /excursion/christ_cathedral.shtml (625 words)

	Moscow in Russia
		Moscow, the capital city of Russia, provides a feast for those who are interested in architecture.
		The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour near the center of Moscow is a replica of the original structure built finished in 1889 taking 12 years and 10,000 workers to complete.
		In Moscow, as everywhere throughout the country one of the most visible souvenirs is the matrushka.
	www.richgros.com /Travel/Russia/Moscow.html (677 words)

	VAO INTOURIST (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Moscow’s boulevards, a historical and cultural centre of Moscow with its museums, theatres and memorial places.
		Cathedral Square, a breathtaking architectural ensemble of the 15th – 17th centuries, where the life of Russian grand princes and tsar started and ended, the Annunciation Cathedral where they were baptised the Assumption Cathedral where they were crowned and the Archangel Michael Cathedral where they were buried.
		Embarkation on a sightseeing river-cruise boat to enjoy Moscow’s highlights from the river front: the Kremlin, The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, the monument to Peter the Great, House of Artist, Gorky Park, St. Andrew’s Monastery, Moscow State University and the New Maiden Convent, Kiev railway station.
	www.intourist.com /ENG/MOSCOW/tours.shtml (1390 words)

	Cathedral of Christ the Saviour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The convent was moved to Sokolniki (then the northeastern outskirts of Moscow) and the excavations for the foundations began.
		The exterior scaffolding was removed in 1860, when the Cathedral first was unveiled in all of its glory.
		The riverbank and squares surrounding the Cathedral, as well as the exterior lanterns were completed by 1881.
	www.russia-moscow-hotels.com /sights/xxc.htm (348 words)

	At midday on 5 December 1931 the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour was destroyed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		At midday on 5 December 1931 the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour was destroyed.
		Then, so it is said, elderly Muscovite women paying their respects to the cathedral on the bank of the Moscow river, crossed themselves in joy, and predicted that nothing apart from the cathedral would ever stand at that place.
		The marble from the cathedral was used in the Kropotkinskaya and Okhotny Ryad metro stations, and the benches were taken to Novokuznetskaya metro.
	www.moskva.ru /guide/churchs/hrhrspas3e.html (402 words)

	Moscow Attractions. THE CATHEDRAL OF CHRIST THE SAVIOUR.
		Main -> Attractions -> The Cathedral of Christ the Savoir
		First electric street lamps in Moscow appeared on the square in front of the temple.
		Subsequently the foundation ditch was used for the construction of swimming - pool " Moscow ".
	www.moscowcity.com /attractions/christsavoir.htm (310 words)

	The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour
		From 1989, the idea of restoring the old cathedral slowly grew from the depths of the national consciousness and pushing through the apparently impenetrable layers of many years of atheist education, like a piece of grass pushing up through asphalt.
		The proposal was immediately met with an avalanche of objections, but in the square near the swimming baths a collecting box and a wooden cross appeared in the early 1990s for donations to the project.
		The foundation stone of the new Cathedral of Christ the Saviour was laid on 7 January 1995, which is Russian Christmas Day.
	www.dol.ru /users/presnja/eng/hhs.htm (274 words)

	Cathedral of Christ the Saviour-Khrista Spasitela-Moscow
		The enormous - and extremely expensive - cathedral was eventually consecrated in 1883, and its vast copper domes dominated the Moscow skyline.
		Completed in 2000, the new cathedral is loosely based on Ton's original designs, but constructed with modern building materials and fitted out with all mod-cons including air conditioning, telecommunications facilities, elevators and underground parking.
		Visitors can only see the cathedral as part of an organized tour, one of the highlights of which is the panoramic view from the 40-meter-high observation platform.
	www.moscow.info /orthodox-moscow/cathedral-christ-saviour.aspx (437 words)

	Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow is the tallest Eastern Orthodox church in the world.
		After the Revolution, the prominent site of the Cathedral was chosen by the Soviets, as the site for a monument to socialism, known as the Palace of Soviets that would rise in modernistic buttressed tiers to support a gigantic statue of Lenin, arm raised in blessing, perched atop a dome.
		On December 5, 1931, the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour was dynamited and reduced to rubble.
	www.hotelmoscow.info /cathedral-of-christ-the-saviour.shtml (422 words)

	Guardian \| Moscow cathedral damned all over again
		High up in the vaults of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, Father Leonid Kalinin runs a finger across a huge fresco of Jesus and John the Baptist, tugs pensively at his beard and pronounces: "No, the eyes are not right.
		Fr Leonid, a graduate of Moscow's Academy of Arts, expert in ecclesiastical culture and Orthodox iconography, and member of the patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox church, is overseeing the interior decoration of the colossal cathedral, a copy of the 19th century centre of Orthodoxy which Stalin plundered and demolished in the 1930s.
		For the project's many critics, the new cathedral interior is a shrine to ideology and power that ignores the traditions of Russian spirituality.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,3917755-103681,00.html (932 words)

	Moscow Travel Guide -
		Christ the Saviour Cathedral on ulitsa Volkhonka is a monument to the struggles of twentieth century Moscow.
		The brainchild of Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzkhov the cathedral was paid for by public donations from school children to babushkas, public officials to rich benefactors alike.
		Completed in 1997 the building now stands on the site of the original Christ the Saviour Cathedral which was constructed to commorate Moscow's victory over Napoleon.
	www.explore-moscow.com /161/Other_Attractions.html (294 words)

	Moscow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Moscow also remains a major economic center and is home to a large number of billionaires; it is perennially considered one of the most expensive cities for expatriate employees in the world.
		Moscow, like with any national capital, is also the host of all the foreign embassies and diplomats representing a multitude of nations in Russia.
		Although Moscow has a number of famous Soviet-era higher educational institutions, most of which are more oriented towards engineering or the fundamental science, in recent years Moscow has seen a significant growth in the number of commercial and private institutions that offer classes in business and management.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Moscow (7656 words)

	Communists demolished Cathedral of Christ the Savior raised by public subscription - Pravda.Ru
		In July 1931, the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union made a decision to demolish the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow.
		The cathedral was meant to be erected as a monument to mark Russia's victory in the Great Patriotic War against Napoleonic France in 1812.
		The cathedral became the tallest cathedral in Moscow and Russia's main cathedral.
	english.pravda.ru /russia/history/20-07-2006/83413-cathedral_christ-0 (691 words)

	Moscow, Sept 2004 - part II - fantastic views from Hotel Ukraina - SkyscraperCity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Stalin-gothic residential highrise at Kotelnicheskaya and the new-built Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.
		Cathedral of Christ the Saviour and the Stalin-gothic Ministry of Foreign Affairs
		Stalin-gothic residential highrise at Kotelnicheskaya and the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour
	www.skyscrapercity.com /showthread.php?t=157546 (905 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| Relic renews Russians' faith
		A relic which they believe to be the hand of John the Baptist is on public display in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow.
		It begins beneath the shining onion domes of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour and ends near the banks of the Moscow river, in the heart of the Russian capital.
		The cathedral itself is the most visible symbol of the transformation - it was completely demolished in the Soviet era, then rebuilt in the 1990s.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/world/europe/5063404.stm (381 words)

	Christ the Saviour & other churches- Moscow, Russia - VirtualTourist.com
		On December 5, 1931, in the depths of the worldwide economic depression, the Cathedral of Christ the Savior was dynamited and reduced to rubble.
		With the end of the Soviet regime, the Russian Orthodox Church lost no time in requesting permission to rebuild the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, in February 1990, foundations began to be poured in the fall of 1994.
		The lower church (Church of the Transfiguration was consecrated in 1996, and the completed Cathedral of Christ the Savior was consecrated August 19, 2000.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Europe/Russia/Gorod_Moskva/Moscow-592480/Things_To_Do-Moscow-Christ_the_Saviour_other_churches-BR-1.html (1366 words)

	Moscow Skyscrapers
		These are my favourite buildings in Moscow - love 'em or hate 'em the seven look-alike gothic skyscrapers of Moscow have dominated the skyline of the city for over forty years, so much so that a stylised representation of them became the symbol of Moscow for the 1980 Olympic Games.
		These are the tall buildings of Moscow, 26 to 32 storeys high, built towards the end of the 1940s and the beginning of the 1950s as part of the unitary plan for the reconstruction of Moscow which was adopted by the Soviet Government in 1947.
		In the course of the reconstruction of Moscow in the 1930s, a lot of churches, cathedrals and bell towers were destroyed and in their place appeared numerous multi-storey buildings and the skyline of the city underwent profound change.
	members.tripod.com /rossiya_david/id22.htm (548 words)

	Seven Sisters \| Moscow Life
		A vast structure of 415 metres (the last 100m of which was to be a giant statue of Lenin) The Palace of Soviets would have been the tallest building in the world, should it have been completed.
		Although a site was prepared for the Palace - the sacred Cathedral of Christ the Saviour was destroyed especially - the chosen ground proved to be too soft for the foundations of such a momentous edifice.
		Situated in key areas around Moscow, these towering skyscrapers are still the dominant feature of the city skyline.
	www.moscow-life.com /moscow/seven-sisters (461 words)

	Mount Holyoke Partners with Colgate in Moscow Study Program
		Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in downtown Moscow
		These English language courses are another "plus" of the program, says Scotto, noting that in many Russian-only programs, students' language limitations force teachers to simplify their literature or politics courses, making them less challenging and stimulating than they could be.
		Past internships have been with IBM's Moscow office, an advertising firm, an environmental lobbying group, the Eurasia Foundation, the American Council of Teachers of Russian, a Russian stockbrokerage, the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, and the Moscow Times.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /offices/comm/csj/100402/moscow.shtml (504 words)

	Your Moscow Guide - Moscow - main city attractions- The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour is the main church of Russia, one of the 5 biggest and most beautiful cathedrals in Europe.
		From that time onwards the Cathedral had remained a symbol of Moscow till it was demolished in 1931 by the personal Stalin’s order so that “the most important building in the country” — the Palace of Soviets, could be put up there.
		View of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour as seen from the Moskva river embankment
	yourmoscowguide.com /02.MoscowCathedralofChrist.htm (193 words)

	Cathedral City - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Cathedral City (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Named after Cathedral Canyon to the south, it is a rapidly growing desert retirement and residential community.
		Cathedral Church of Saint Nicholas and Our Lady Assumed into Heaven
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Cathedral+City (114 words)

	Cathedral of Christ the Saviour (Kaliningrad) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour (Храм Христа Спасителя, Hram Hrista Spasitelja) in the Russian city of Kaliningrad (formerly Königsberg) is the largest church of the region.
		The cathedral's appearance is similar to the cathedral of the same name in Moscow.
		Beside the cathedral there is a small wooden church.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cathedral_of_Christ_the_Saviour_(Kaliningrad) (131 words)

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