A grandiose Orthodox cathedral in the exotic Neo-Byzantine style, rare in Central Russia, was built in the late 19th and early 20th century to accommodate ten thousand parishioners, the workers of Sormovo Shipyard.
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One of the largest industrial enterprises of pre-revolutionary Russia the Sormovo Shipbuilding Plant by the end of the 19th century offered jobs to more than 10 thousand people. The old factory church no longer could hold such a large number of parishioners, and it was decided to start building a new grand cathedral. The author of the project was architect Pavel Malinovsky, who performed the cathedral in neo-Byzantine style, after the model of Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Sofia.
The new temple was built on the money of Sormovo workers, "voluntarily and compulsorily" deducted as a kopeck from every earned ruble, and therefore it was nicknamed "Kopeechny" by local folks.
The cathedral was constructed in three years, and the works were conducted only during the warm season, so as not to compromise the quality of the masonry.
By the summer of 1906 the interior works were completed. At that time, no one suspected that in just two decades all of this magnificence would remain only in the photos of the famous photo artist Maxim Dmitriev. After the revolution, the bells and the iron roof went for meltdown. The temple was planned to explode, but then it was decided to use it for other needs, and for some time it hosted the House of Culture, then warehousing facilities.
In the 1950's, when a film based on Gorky's novel "Mother" was shot in Nizhny Novgorod (that time city of Gorky and the main action of the novel took place in Sormovo), a cross was temporarily mounted on the cathedral.
In 1990 the cathedral was returned to the diocese. Restoration of the external appearance and interior decoration of the cathedral was conducted from old photographs and archival drawings.
By the end of 2005, the repair works in the Transfiguration Cathedral were completed. Today it is a monument of regional architecture heritage.
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