Nativity of Christ Cathedral (Novokuznetsk)

The Cathedral of the Nativity of Christ in Novokuznetsk was built as a memorial to the miners of Kuzbass, and the decision to construct it was made after the accident at the Zyrjanovskaya mine in 1997. The church was opened to parishioners on August 23, 2012, and on August 25, 2013, on Miner's Day, it was consecrated by Patriarch Kirill, who on August 21, 2013, granted the church the status of a cathedral. The authors of the project are architect T. V. Bzhevskaya and chief designer V. S. Beloborodov, and among the shrines of the church is a reliquary containing a particle of the relics of the holy new martyrs of Jasenovac. The central dome of the cathedral has a diameter of 18 meters, a height of 28 meters, and weighs 40 tons, while its cladding was installed at the height of a five-story building.