Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Paris

Alexander Nevsky Cathedral
Cathedral of Saint Alexander Nevsky
Cathédrale Saint-Alexandre-Nevsky de Paris
Alexander Nevsky Cathedral
Location	Paris
Country	France
Denomination	Russian Orthodox Church
Website	cathedrale-orthodoxe.com
History
Founder(s)	Joseph Vassiliev, Alexander II of Russia
Consecrated	September 11, 1861
Architecture
Heritage designation	Monument Historique PA00088807
Designated	May 11, 1981
Architect(s)	Roman Kouzmine, Ivan Strohm
Architectural type	Cathedral
Style	Byzantine
Groundbreaking	March 3, 1859
Administration
Archdiocese	Patriarchal Exarchate for Orthodox Parishes of Russian Tradition in Western Europe
Clergy
Archbishop	Job (Getcha) of Telmessos

The Alexander Nevsky Cathedral (French: Cathédrale Saint-Alexandre-Nevsky, Russian: Собор Святого Александра Невского) is a Russian Orthodox cathedral church located at 12 rue Daru in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. It was established and consecrated in 1861, making it the first Russian Orthodox place of worship in France. It is the see of the Patriarchal Exarchate for Orthodox Parishes of Russian Tradition in Western Europe, under the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. It was built in part through a gift of 200,000 francs from Tsar Alexander II.

The closest métro station is Courcelles

Famous people

• Here was celebrated the wedding of Pablo Picasso with Olga Khokhlova on 12 July 1918; the witnesses were Jean Cocteau, Max Jacob and Guillaume Apollinaire.
• The first wedding of Henri Troyat was also celebrated here in 1938.
• Several famous Russian artists had their funeral ceremonies here: Ivan Turgenev in 1883, Fyodor Chaliapin in 1938, Wassily Kandinsky in 1944, George Gurdjieff in 1949, Ivan Bunin in 1953, Andrei Tarkovsky in 1987 and Henri Troyat in 2007.
• The 1956 film Anastasia features the Cathedral in one of its first scenes.

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Bibliography

• Nicolas Ross, Saint-Alexandre sur-Seine, édition du CERF.