St. Nicholas Cathedral as an architectural wonder of the city

St. Nicholas Cathedral is one of the masterpieces of the city’s architecture, which will be remembered for a long time. After all, looking at the incredible shape of the curved domes of the temple, it seems that the building is about to start moving. It is due to the shape of these "twisted" domes that the St. Nicholas Cathedral was called the "Drunk Church". And indeed, if you look at the curves for a long time, there is an illusion of their movement in the direction of the main bath of the church. The design of the domes inside the temple is interesting. They are decorated with unique stained glass windows. An inquisitive connoisseur should also pay attention to the columns at the entrance and the semi-columns on the windows, which were made in the Romanesque style. The roof of the temple is covered with tiles, decorated with a pattern of national ornaments.

The construction of the church began when Northern Bukovina was part of the Romanian kingdom. The temple was designed on the model of one of the masterpieces of Romanian medieval architecture Curtea de Argeș - the last resting place of the Romanian kings. The neo-Romanesque cathedral is a kind of interpretation of the European Renaissance.

St. Nicholas Cathedral is one of the few churches in Chernivtsi, which was not closed under Soviet rule. Worship services were not interrupted here. Due to this, the original interior of the Bukovynian church of the first half of the XX century has been preserved inside. Neither the old carved iconostasis nor the stained glass windows under the baths were damaged. The relics of the saints and gilded church utensils also survived.