Architecture

Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Paris

The Alexander Nevsky Cathedral (French: Cathédrale Saint-Alexandre-Nevsky, Russian: Собор Святого Александра Невского, romanized: Sobor Svyatogo Aleksandra Nyevskogo) is a Russian Orthodox cathedral church located at 12 Rue Daru in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. The closest métro station is Courcelles . The Cathedral is under the jurisdiction of the Archdiocese of Orthodox Churches of Russian Tradition in Western Europe, based in Paris. It should not be confused with the Holy Trinity Cathedral and the Russian Orthodox Spiritual and Cultural Center, which opened in Paris in 2016, under the authority of the Moscow patriarch and Russian government. Services in the main cathedral are conducted in Church Slavonic. Some services in the Crypt are conducted in French.

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• ▸1st-century Roman domes
• ▸Bering Strait
• ▸Cathedral of the Holy Trinity (Quebec)

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