Gülşehir Karşı (St. Jean Church), Cappadocia, Turkey
Sent by Harun in Istanbul
on 4 Jan, 2014
travel time 74 days
distance travelled 2,446 km
The Naval Cathedral of Saint Nicholas, details, Kronstadt, Russia
The Naval cathedral of Saint Nicholas in Kronstadt is a Russian Orthodox cathedral built in 1903–1913 as the main church of the Russian Navy and dedicated to all fallen seamen. The cathedral was closed in 1929, was converted to a cinema, a House of Officers (1939) and a museum of the Navy (1980). The Russian Orthodox Church reinstalled the cross on the main dome in 2002 and served the first Divine Liturgy in the cathedral in 2005. In 2013, the Patriarch of Russia, with Prime Minister Dmitriy Medvedev and his spouse attending, conducted the ceremony of grand reconsecration in the now fully restored cathedral.
Direct swap sent By Nikolay in Kronstadt
Church of St. Sebastian in Wieliczka, Poland
St. Sebastian’s Church in Wieliczka was built in 1581 using larch wood, and then rebuilt in the C18th.
Sent by Monika in Czestochowa
on 2 Dec, 2014
travel time 13 days
distance travelled 1,329 km
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