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4 unusual facts about Alexander Nevsky Cathedral


Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Belgrade

It is located in the Dorćol in the municipality of Stari Grad. Like all Alexander Nevsky Cathedral and churches it is named after the Russian national saint Aleksandr Yaroslavich Nevskiy.

Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Tiflis

Construction of the cathedral was launched six years later, April 16, 1871, in the upper part of Alexander’s Garden in Gunibsky Square (later known as Soborny Square, now part of Rustaveli Avenue).

Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Warsaw

Field Cathedral of the Polish Army, another cathedral in Warsaw that used to be an Orthodox church

Meriton Grand Hotel Tallinn

Meriton Grand Hotel Tallinn is a four-star hotel in Tallinn, Estonia, to the west of Alexander Nevsky Cathedral.


National Gallery for Foreign Art

The NGFA is situated in the very centre of Sofia, at St. Alexander Nevsky Square, behind the building of the National Assembly and the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral.

Nikola Marinov

Marinov has also done a great number of frescoes in churches in Plovdiv, Lovech, Biala Cherkva, Pernik and Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Sofia.

Yordan Milanov

Milanov was a member and later a chairman of the committee on the construction of the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Sofia.


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