Cathedral

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Cathedral
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My dear friends,this is my first night shot
posting and the result of my third attempt to
take it properly..-))I hope you will excuse the
quality-I had no tripod and used fir balance a
huge trash bin,but hope it was it worth to stand
the uncovinience,as the Varna Jawel(as I call it)
is a beauty and I was very eager to show it to
you,no matter my humble skills and not very high
quality of photographical equipment.
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• However,I hope very much you will enjoy it
  the way I offer it to you today,as it has a
  significant place in Varna history too. This is
  the sight of Varna Assumption Cathedral,Situated
  in the very core of the city,lit up for the
  night.
• It was built in the First years after the
  liberation of the country.The honour to lay the
  main stone of the future temple fell to prince
  Alexander I Batenberg who arrived to Varna on 4th
  August 1880 and the official ceremony took place
  on 22nd August 1880.

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• The chosen name Uspenie Presvyatiya
  Bogoroditza(the Assumption) was commemorate the
  recently deceased all-Russian empress Maria
  Alexandrovna-a Bulgaria benefactress and aunt of
  the prince.No time was wasted and the building
  works started right away.It took 6 years for the
  temple to be completed.The project imitated the
  style of the Peterhoff temple in Petersburg.

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• The church was planned to reach the size of
  35x35 metres,with a three-nave basilica,the main
  altar dedicated to the Assumption,the northern
  one-to the faithful prince St.Alexander
  Nevsky,the southern-to St.Nicholas the
  Wonder-Worker.On 15th March 1884 the committee
  assigned the construction to the prominent
  church-builder Gencho Kanev from Tryavna.The
  following year the temple was already erected,in
  September the Roofing was finished and on 30th
  August 1886 the first solemn mass was celebrated
  there.

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• However,the design of its interior continued
  throughout the following years.The bishops stall
  was placed in 1897later on the iconostasis was
  also ready.The bell was supposed to weigh 1638
  kg,with an inscribed text trat readin honour of
  the Liberator.In 1901 the Russian czar Nicolay
  II presented 42 smalle and 3 bigger icons,and
  1904 other 8 icons were brought to the church to
  be placed at the middle and northern doorways.In
  1911 the church flooring was covered with
  multivoloured ceramic tiles 4 years later the
  balcony was ready.

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• In 1941-43 the bell-tower (38 m high) and the
  cupolas were reconstructed to their present
  form,the steam-heating room was built,the roofing
  structure replaced.The temple was icon-painted in
  the years following 1949the chandeliers were
  also installed at that time.

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Ivanela ?II g class