Cathedral of the Presentation of the Lord
Kherson, UA
The Cathedral of the Presentation of the Lord was built in 1889 in the neoclassical style. In 1930 the cathedral was closed by the Soviet authorities and in 1938 the upper part of the cathedral - the pavilion and the bell tower - was destroyed. The Bolsheviks converted the lower part of the cathedral into a warehouse. In 1941 the cathedral was reopened, but it was closed again in 1962 and waited another 40 years to be reopened.