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One notable and architecturally important exception is Frank Lloyd Wright's design of Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, in the United States. The Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity on New York City's Upper East Side is the largest Orthodox Christian church in the Western Hemisphere. [2]
A cathedral’s architecture, therefore, becomes an active participant in the sensory experience of the parishioners during Orthodox ritual. Further, the architecture of the church is planned so as to enhance the actions of the clergy; this is related to the strong mystic aspect of the church born out of Orthodoxy’s Byzantine roots. [8]
It passed into the church architecture of the Roman world and was adapted in different ways as a feature of cathedral architecture. [ 11 ] The earliest large churches, such as the cathedral of St John Lateran in Rome, consisted of a single-ended basilica with one apsidal end and a courtyard, or atrium , at the other end.
This is a list of the largest Eastern Orthodox church buildings in the world, based on area and capacity. Any Eastern Orthodox church building that has a capacity of 3,000 people or more, can be added to this page. Entries are included even if a premises otherwise meeting the criterion currently does not function as a church.
The People's Salvation Cathedral (Romanian: Catedrala Mântuirii Neamului; People's Redemption Cathedral a better translation of the name), also known as the National Cathedral (Romanian: Catedrala Națională), is an Eastern Orthodox cathedral under construction in Bucharest to serve as the patriarchal cathedral of the Romanian Orthodox Church. [21]
Cathedral of Our Lady of the "Omen" (Russian: Зна́менский собо́р)is an Orthodox church is in Kursk. It is the main cathedral of the Kursk Metropolitanate and Eparchy of the Russian Orthodox Church. It is located in the historical center of the city, on the territory of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the "Omen".
The cathedral houses the lower church, which is devoted to Sergius of Radonezh, in addition to the higher one. [2] The Transfiguration Cathedral's three-tiered bell tower, which has an observation deck and clock on the third tier, is crowned by an oval dome and spire that rises to a height of 73 metres (240 ft).
The cathedral is considered a unique example of architectural evolution which includes seven churches of which some have a great historic value such as the Church of St. Rewiss. The Cathedral represents the rapid development of Coptic architecture, [9] [10] as the famous Coptic civil engineer Michel Bakhoum contributed in its structural design ...