Holy Trinity Cathedral

About

The Cathedral of the Holy Trinity of Paris is an Orthodox church, episcopal seat of the diocese of Chersonese, which includes France, Switzerland, Monaco and Liechtenstein, and centre of the exarchate of Western Europe of the Moscow Patriarchate. It is located in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, near the bridge of the Alma, at the beginning of the Quai Branly. Projected in 2007 by Alexis II, Patriarch of Moscow, with the support of President Nicolas Sarkozy and President Vladimir Putin, it was built between 2013 and 2016 by architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte.

Dedicated to the Holy Trinity and to the "historical, cultural and spiritual relations between France and Russia", it was inaugurated in October 2016, succeeding the Cathedral of the Three Saints-Doctors as episcopal seat. From an architectural point of view, it mixes the neo-Byzantine and neo-Russian styles: it is surmounted by five traditional bulb bell towers made of composite material covered with matt gold, and an Orthodox cross. It is integrated into the Russian Orthodox Spiritual and Cultural Centre (CSCOR), a complex that includes, in addition to the cathedral and the parish house, a cultural centre (auditorium, bookshops, halls...