Annunciation Cathedral

The Annunciation Cathedral is the main Orthodox church of Kharkiv, Ukraine. The pentacupolar Neo-Byzantine structure with an unmistakable 80-meter-tall chime tower was finished on October 2, 1888, from outlines by a neighborhood draftsman, Mikhail Lovtsov. The congregation was sanctified in 1901, and the prior Annunciation church was then pulled down. The candy cane striped house of prayer supplanted the more seasoned Assumption Cathedral as the fundamental church of Kharkiv and was one of the biggest and tallest places of worship of the Russian Empire. The symbol screen used to be of Carrara marble. The congregation was frescoed in a style got from St Vladimir's Cathedral in Kiev.

On July 3, 1914 the congregation wound up perceived as the city's house of God. The house of God was shut to admirers in 1930, yet it was revived amid the German occupation in 1943. The congregation was then in the hands of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church and harbored a school, however guarantees proliferate that it was later utilized as a distribution center. Since 1946 the house of God has been the seat of the Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv eparchy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Moscow Patriarchate, while the Intercession Convent has filled in as the religious administrator's living arrangement. The Ecumenical Patriarch Athanasius III Patelaros and a few virtuous priests are covered in the church building.