Cathédrale Saint-Alexandre-Nevsky
The Cathédrale Saint-Alexandre-Nevsky, or Собор Святого Александра Невского, is one of Paris’s clearest markers of 19th-century Russian Orthodoxy—built to serve a growing Russian immigrant community. The story begins with a small Russian Orthodox oratory on Rue de Berri in 1816, but by 1847 Father Joseph Vassiliev, chaplain of the Russian Embassy, received permission from Emperor Napoleon III to construct a larger church. Funding came in part through a grant of 200,000 French francs from Czar Alexander II, whose patron saint was Alexander Nevsky (1219–1263). Construction began in 1859 under Roman Kouzmine, chief architect of the Russian imperial Court, with the chef engineer Strohm, and the cathedral was established and consecrated in 1861—later becoming a formally recognized cathedral in 1951. Today, its services in the main cathedral are conducted in Church Slavonic, while some services in the crypt are in French. …
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