Description of the attraction
The Cathedral of Theodore Tiron, or St. Fyodor's Cathedral in Lugi, is one of the youngest Orthodox churches in Pinsk. It was erected on the outskirts of the city in the residential area of Luga. Previously, there was no temple at this place.
The project of this atypical for the Belarusian church architecture of the cathedral was developed by the native of the city of Baranovichi, architect L. V. Makarevich in a retrospective Byzantine style. Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II came to Pinsk for the ceremony of laying the first stone of the cathedral in 1990.
The monumental white-stone structure is crowned with five black domes on round light drums. The bell tower of the cathedral is 55 meters high.
The Holy Great Martyr Theodore Tiron is considered the Orthodox heavenly patron of the city of Pinsk and the patron of the Pinsk prince Fyodor Yaroslavich. He was venerated since the XIV century, when an icon lamp was always burning on the main gate of Pinsk in front of the image of St. Theodore Tiron.
There used to be a cathedral of Theodore Tiron in Pinsk. The stone building of the temple was built by Dominican monks in the 18th century. After the transfer of Pinsk to Russian jurisdiction, the Dominican church was closed and transferred to Orthodox Christians. It was this church that was rebuilt into the Cathedral of Theodore Tiron.
During the battles for Pinsk in 1939, the cathedral was badly destroyed. An attempt to restore it ended in failure - the roof of the building collapsed, and the remaining ruins had to be completely destroyed. Unfortunately, the construction of a new temple of Theodore Tiron in the same place turned out to be impossible for two reasons: firstly, there would not be enough space for such a monumental structure in the historical center of Pinsk, and secondly, a cinema was built on the site of the destroyed temple in Soviet times, which later it was rebuilt into the Cathedral of the Resurrection of the Glorious.
