Description of the attraction
The Cathedral of the Three Saints was founded in 1903, when the first stone was laid. The construction was carried out according to the project of the architect P. Kalinin. In 1914 the temple was consecrated in the name of three saints of the Orthodox Church - Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian, John Chrysostom.
The temple was built in the pseudo-Russian style characteristic of the Silver Age - the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. The Russian Art Nouveau style resembles the architecture of the 17th century, in which the nostalgic nationality inherent in Russian towers is reinforced with specific decorations reminiscent of Russian kokoshniks, lace, braids. The temple has a cruciform shape. It has three entrances, each of which is dedicated to one of the three saints. For the person who enters, it seems that he is entering a completely different temple. The contrast of domes of different sizes enhances the feeling of fragility, unreality of the temple, more reminiscent of the mirage of an eastern castle in the hot air of the desert.
This temple was very fond of and willingly visited during his stay in Mogilev during the First World War, the last Russian emperor Nicholas II, who was distinguished by his particular piety. A refined connoisseur of beauty, the tsar was very fond of the nostalgic pseudo-Russian architectural style.
Imperial sympathy cost the cathedral dearly after the revolution. Until 1961, the church, albeit not regularly, but acted, but in 1961 Khrushchev's anti-religious persecutions also affected this fragile church. Its onion domes were demolished, and a factory recreation center was organized within the walls of the former church. At the end of the socialist rule, the fact that there was once a temple here was completely forgotten, having arranged a fashionable disco in the church walls.
In 1989, after numerous letters and long negotiations, the temple was returned to the believers. It required a thorough reconstruction and a new consecration before prayers resounded in it again.
