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Romanian People's Salvation Cathedral

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Romanian People's Salvation Cathedral
Romanian People's Salvation Cathedral
Romanian People's Salvation Cathedral
Romanian People's Salvation Cathedral
Romanian People's Salvation Cathedral
Romanian People's Salvation Cathedral
Romanian People's Salvation Cathedral
Romanian People's Salvation Cathedral
Romanian People's Salvation Cathedral
Romanian People's Salvation Cathedral
Romanian People's Salvation Cathedral
Romanian People's Salvation Cathedral
Romanian People's Salvation Cathedral
Romanian People's Salvation Cathedral
Romanian People's Salvation Cathedral
Romanian People's Salvation Cathedral
Romanian People's Salvation Cathedral
Romanian People's Salvation Cathedral
Romanian People's Salvation Cathedral
Romanian People's Salvation Cathedral
Romanian People's Salvation Cathedral
Romanian People's Salvation Cathedral
Romanian People's Salvation Cathedral
Romanian People's Salvation Cathedral
Phone:
021 406 7167

Address:
Bucharest, Romania

The People's Salvation Cathedral is the common name used to refer to a future Romanian Orthodox cathedral currently under construction in Bucharest. It will be the patriarchal cathedral of the Romanian Orthodox Church, and the largest Orthodox church in the world when completed by area, volume, weight and height. It is located in central Bucharest on Spirea's Hill , facing the same courtyard as the Palace of the Parliament - the world's largest administrative building for civilian use. The cathedral will be ten times smaller in size than the Parliamentary Palace, but will surpass it by 50 m in height. Also, it will be the Orthodox church with the highest inner of the nave in the world , having 43 m from the floor to the nave's ceiling. The People's Salvation Cathedral will have – besides five smaller bells – the world's largest free swinging church bell, surpassing the Saint Peter's bell in the Cologne Cathedral. With a weight of 25,190 kg, a clapper of 668 kg, a diameter of 3355 mm, a height of 3130 mm, thickness of 273 mm, the bell was cast on 11 November 2016 in Innsbruck by Grassmayr and will be elevated to 65 meters. The bell is made of 78% copper and 22% tin, both 99.99% purity and has a very low beat C3 with 130.8 Hz.The People's Salvation Cathedral will be blessed on 25 November 2018 by his holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople. The first patronal feast of the People’s Salvation Cathedral will be celebrated on 30 November, on the day of Saint Andrew the First Called, and the Liturgy will be officiated by his beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem . The new cathedral will be dedicated to the Ascension of Christ and to Saint Andrew the Apostle.
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