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RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH
Location:
315, Brasil St.-San Telmo
In
the mid-19th Century, the first Orthodox Greek and Slavonic immigrants
started arriving followed by, a few years later by the Lebanese and the
Syrian. They made up a small community who asked and managed to convince
Emperor Alexander II to sign a decree for the foundation in Buenos Aires
of an Orthodox Church attached to the Russian Empire’s Legation in South
America.
The church was designed in
St. Petersburg and the work was directed by the artist Cristophersen
opening in 1904. The style is Byzantine with onion-like domes on the
facade and Stara symbolizing the Celestial Sphere.
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