Cathedral of Christ the Saviour

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The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour (Serbian: Саборни храм Христа Спаситеља, romanized: Saborni hram Hrista Spasitelja) is an Eastern Orthodox church located in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is under jurisdiction of the Eparchy of Banja Luka of the Serbian Orthodox Church and serves as its cathedral church.

History: The Church of the Holy Trinity was built during interwar period in the downtown of Banja Luka. The construction of the church took from 1925 to 1929, and was solemnly consecrated on the Day of Salvation in 1939. During the German bombing on April 12, 1941, the church was hit and the altar section (apse) was significantly damaged. In May of the same year, the Ustashas declared the church a "mound of the city" and ordered the Serbs, Jews and Roma to completely demolish it, brick by brick. During the time of the communist Yugoslavia, the monument to fallen soldiers was erected in its place. The aforementioned monument to fallen soldiers was moved to a nearby location in 1993, at the time when the wartime leadership of Banja Luka renamed majority of streets, schools, and institutions. The erection of the new church began in 1993 when the foundations were consecrated...