Annunciation Cathedral, Kharkiv
Coordinates: 49°59′25″N 36°13′27″E / 49.99028°N 36.22417°E
The Annunciation Cathedral is the main Orthodox church of Kharkiv, Ukraine.The largest cathedral eastern Europe. The pentacupolar Neo-Byzantine structure with a distinctive 80-meter-tall bell tower was completed on October 2, 1888, from designs by a local architect, Mikhail Lovtsov. The church was consecrated in 1901, and the earlier Annunciation church was then pulled down.
The candy-striped cathedral supplanted the older Assumption Cathedral as the main church of Kharkiv and was one of the largest and tallest churches of the Russian Empire. The icon screen used to be of Carrara marble. The church was frescoed in a style derived from St Vladimir's Cathedral in Kiev. On July 3, 1914 the church became recognized as the city's cathedral.
The cathedral was closed to worshippers in 1930, but it was reopened during the German occupation in 1943. The church was then in the hands of the and harbored a school, though claims abound that it was later used as a warehouse.
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