Designed in the Pskov style of 12-13th century northern Russia. The first Russian Orthodox church in Los Angeles, it was founded by a congregation with few wealthy members, many of whom had served as officers in the Russian army and navy who fled Russia in the chaos following the Russian Revolution and World War I. Early parishioners included composer Sergei Rachmaninov, actors Ivan Lebedeff and Nicholas Kobliansky and art director and production designer Alexander Toluboff. Toluboff's contribution was most significant; in the 1930s he was nominated three times for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction.
In 1960, the church was enlarged to almost double its size with designs by architect Sergei N. Koschin, a collaborator of Richard Neutra. In 1971 it was designated a cathedral by the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church in America. The same year, architect S.N. Koschin designed a new building to house the Chapel of St. Herman of Alaska, a school building and sacristy.
The Cathedral is located at 650 Micheltorena Street. Please do not use this image in any media without my permission. © All rights reserved.
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Designed in the Pskov style of 12-13th century northern Russia. The first Russian Orthodox church in Los Angeles, it was founded by a congregation with few wealthy members, many of whom had served as officers in the Russian army and navy who fled Russia in the chaos following the Russian Revolution and World War I. Early parishioners included composer Sergei Rachmaninov, actors Ivan Lebedeff and Nicholas Kobliansky and art director and production designer Alexander Toluboff. Toluboff's contribution was most significant; in the 1930s he was nominated three times for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction.
In 1960, the church was enlarged to almost double its size with designs by architect Sergei N. Koschin, a collaborator of Richard Neutra. In 1971 it was designated a cathedral by the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church in America. The same year, architect S.N. Koschin designed a new building to house the Chapel of St. Herman of Alaska, a school building and sacristy.
The Cathedral is located at 650 Micheltorena Street. Please do not use this image in any media without my permission. © All rights reserved.
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The temple was built in the years 1693-1699. from a brick on the site of the dismantled gate church (1513) in the name of St. Sergius of Radonezh, the throne of which was transferred to the newly rebuilt church with the Refectory Chamber.
The former stone church of St. Sergius (1513) was built at a time when the fortress wall was still wooden. After the fence was rebuilt in stone, the Church of St. Sergius, and after it the Precursor Church built in its place, was inside the monastery - because the line of the stone wall was referred to the east from the old wooden line by several meters. Over the new entrance to the monastery built the Red Tower.
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In Sergiev Posad, the center of Russian Orthodoxy, eleven octagonal towers were built into the walls as key defense points. The most famous, the northeast tower, is knows as the Utichya (Duck) Tower; the duck atop its spire symbolizes Peter the Great`s hunting expeditions in Sergiev Posad. (He also enjoyed taking shots at the ducks swimming in the pond below). The place also played an important cultural role; the manuscript – writing and color miniature painting sections date back to the 15th century.
Located in Trinity Sergius Lavra of St. Sergius, the most important monastery of the Russian Orthodox Church. Please do not use this image in any media without my permission. © All rights reserved
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The Dormition Cathedral is dedicated to one of the most venerated and complex mysteries in Orthodox theology, the Dormition of the Mother of God, which refers to the transposition of Mary from this world to the heavenly sphere. Orthodox iconography portrays the recumbent Mother of God, surrounded by apostles, as falling asleep — hence the term “dormition” (in Russian “uspenie”) from the Latin verb dormire, “to sleep.” At this moment — in effect, Mary’s death — Christ accepts Mary’s soul into heaven three days before her “assumption,” in which her resurrected body is miraculously taken to heaven.
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