Talk:Cathedral of Christ the Saviour (Moscow)

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Contents 1 Largest Orthodox church in use? 2 Swimming pool 3 Location? 4 Replica Building

[edit] Largest Orthodox church in use?

• Is this church still the largest? Or is it the Temple of Saint Sava in Belgrade? "The (Orthodox) Temple of Saint Sava in Belgrade, Serbia is the largest Orthodox Church Temple currently in use". This article should be updated to second-largest, or something, as it is not the largest. Cheers, --Krytan 22:39, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

  It depends on what you mean by "largest". It is still the tallest, as can be seen here. No need no say that it is the most richly decorated, although St Isaac's is close by. --Ghirla ^-трёп- 08:31, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

  Ah... I see now how they are close by. So maybe it was just the height differential. But now that is clarified. --Krytan 22:17, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

• . St. Isaac's is the largest in square meters and 1.5 meters lower in height. It is definitely much more decorated, if that matters in this context.

[edit] Swimming pool

I think there should be a picture of the swimming pool in the article. Also, the Russian article has a beautiful image of frescoes in the old cathedral. Something should be mentioned about whether the walls of the new cathedral have also been decorated, and if so by whom. Esn 08:23, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Location?

Neither this article, nor Palace of the Soviets state whether the cathedral was rebuilt in the same location. One would assume so -- but then there's the old joke about "assume". (Cliche omitted for your reading pleasure.) Adding this piece of information would improve articles. -- llywrch 15:35, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Replica Building

This building should be listed under a new category for replica buildings. See Talk:St Mark's Campanile. Robert Schediwy (Vienna) 84.112.54.160 (talk) 14:30, 7 February 2008 (UTC)