Kronstadt Naval Cathedral

Naval St. Nicholas Cathedral Морской Никольский Собор Morskoy Nikolskiy Sobor
The Kronstadt Naval Cathedral in August 2015
Religion
Affiliation	Russian Orthodox
Location
Location	Yakornaya Square 1, Kronstadt, Saint Petersburg
Geographic coordinates	59°59′30.1546″N 29°46′40.3359″E / 59.991709611°N 29.777871083°E / 59.991709611; 29.777871083
Architecture
Architect(s)	Vasily Kosyakov
Style	Late Neo-Byzantine
Completed	10 June 1913
Specifications
Capacity	5,000
Length	77.3 m (interior)[2] 83.2 m (exterior-stairs)[2]
Width	54.4 m (interior)[3] 63.8 m (exterior-stairs)[3]
Interior area	3,000 m² (interior)[1] 3,400 m² (exterior-stairs)
Height (max)	70.6 m (top cross)[2]
Dome dia. (outer)	29.8 m[3]
Website
Kronshtadtsobor.ru

The Naval cathedral of Saint Nicholas in Kronstadt (Russian: Морской Никольский собор, Morskoj Nikol'skij sobor) is a Russian Orthodox cathedral built in 1903–1913 as the main church of the Russian Navy and dedicated to all fallen seamen. The cathedral was closed in 1929, was converted to a cinema, a House of Officers (1939) and a museum of the Navy (1980).

The Russian Orthodox Church reinstalled the cross on the main dome in 2002 and (for the first time since 1929) served the Divine Liturgy in the cathedral in 2005.^[4] In 2013, the Patriarch of Russia, with Prime Minister Dmitriy Medvedev and his spouse attending, conducted the ceremony of grand reconsecration in the now fully restored cathedral.