Description of the attraction
The Cathedral of the Life-Giving Trinity in Yekaterinburg is a functioning Orthodox church and one of the most iconic sights of the city. The construction of the cathedral began in 1818, and ended in 1824. The construction was carried out with funds donated by the merchant Yakim Merkuryevich Ryazanov, therefore local residents often call the temple after him - Ryazanovskaya church.
Initially, the temple was Old Believer, but it was not consecrated. In 1839, the merchant Ryazanov adopted the same faith, as a result, the church was consecrated as one of the same faith. At that time the Ryazanovskaya church was considered the richest in Yekaterinburg; such relics as the icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker and the icon of the Kazan Mother of God in gilded frames were kept here.
The temple was built in the style of mature classicism. It was decorated with side porticos, five shining domes, an extended refectory and a bell tower. In 1852, the main, Trinity throne was consecrated. In 1854, work on the completion of the bell tower was completed, as a result of which the building was sufficiently lengthened. The temple had a main five-tiered iconostasis and two-tiered side iconostases.
At the beginning of the first half of the twentieth century, in the 1930s. The Holy Trinity Cathedral was closed, and the domes were simply destroyed. At various times, the building of the temple was used as a cinema, a factory and the Avtomobilist House of Culture. In 1996, the temple was transferred to the Yekaterinburg Orthodox community. In 2000, the major reconstruction of the cathedral was completed: a new bell tower with a belfry was built and consecrated. The cathedral itself was also re-consecrated. In the same year, the Cathedral of the Life-Giving Trinity received the status of a cathedral.
