Ascension Cathedral

The Ascension Cathedral, also known as Zenkov Cathedral, is a Russian Orthodox cathedral located in Panfilov Park in , . Completed in 1907, the cathedral is made out of wood but without nails.
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  • Email: alexandr@cathedral.kz
  • Type: Church
  • Denomination: Orthodox
  • Description: church in Almaty, Kazakhstan
  • Also known as: “Ascension Cathedral, Almaty” and “Zenkov Cathedral”
  • Address: 40B Гоголь көшесі, Алматы

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Park of the 28 Guardsmen and Kazakh museum of folk musical instruments.

Park
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The 28 Panfilov Guardsmen Park is an near the Ascension Cathedral in east-central , Kazakhstan. The park honors the Panfilov's Twenty-Eight Guardsmen, 28 soldiers from an Alma-Ata infantry unit of the Red Army who reportedly died during World War II in the Battle of Moscow.

Museum
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The Ykhlas Museum of Folk Musical Instruments is a musical instrument museum located in , . Located in Panfilov Park, the wooden building was erected in 1908, simultaneously with Ascension Cathedral. is situated 310 metres east of Ascension Cathedral.

Sauna
Arasan is a health-improving complex in . is situated 350 metres west of Ascension Cathedral.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Almaty and Kok Tobe.

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in is the largest city and the financial and cultural centre of Kazakhstan, with a population in 2024 of 2,250,000. It's a sprawling modern city on a grid pattern, with snow-capped mountains just south marking the border with Kyrgyzstan.

Locality
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Köktöbe or Koktyube is a hill in Almaty, Kazakhstan's largest city and former capital. At 1,100 meters above sea level, it is one of the main landmarks of the city and a symbol of Almaty. is situated 3½ km southeast of Ascension Cathedral.

Suburb
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is a suburb, which is situated 6 km west of Ascension Cathedral.

Ascension Cathedral

Latitude
43.25879° or 43° 15′ 32″ north
Longitude
76.95312° or 76° 57′ 11″ east
Open location code
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Open­Street­Map ID
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Wiki­data ID
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In Other Languages

From Azerbaijani to Ukrainian—“Ascension Cathedral” goes by many names.
  • Azerbaijani: “Yüksəliş kafedralı (Almatı)”
  • Azerbaijani: “Yüksəliş kafedralı”
  • Chinese: “升天主教座堂”
  • Chinese: “升天大教堂 (阿拉木圖)”
  • Czech: “Chrám Nanebevstoupení Páně”
  • Dutch: “Christus Hemelvaartkathedraal (Alma Ata)”
  • Dutch: “Christus Hemelvaartkathedraal (Alma-Ata)”
  • Dutch: “Christus Hemelvaartkathedraal”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كاتدرائيه الصعود”
  • French: “Cathédrale de l’Ascension d’Almaty”
  • French: “cathédrale Zenkov”
  • German: “Auferstehungs-Kathedrale (Almaty)”
  • German: “Christi-Himmelfahrt-Kathedrale”
  • Indonesian: “Katedral Kebangkitan, Almaty”
  • Italian: “cattedrale dell’Ascensione”
  • Italian: “Cattedrale dell’Ascensione”
  • Japanese: “昇天大聖堂 (アルマトイ)”
  • Kazakh: “Алматыдағы Зенковтың кафедралы соборы”
  • Kazakh: “Вознесенск кафедралы шіркеуі”
  • Polish: “Sobór Wniebowstąpienia Pańskiego w Ałma-Acie”
  • Polish: “Sobór Wniebowstąpienia Pańskiego w Ałmaty”
  • Russian: “Вознесенский кафедральный собор (Алматы)”
  • Russian: “Вознесенский собор (Алма-Ата)”
  • Russian: “Вознесенский собор (Алматы)”
  • Russian: “Вознесенский собор”
  • Russian: “Вознесенский Собор”
  • Russian: “Свято-Вознесенский кафедральный собор (Алматы)”
  • Russian: “Свято-Вознесенский кафедральный собор”
  • Serbian: “Храм Христовог вазнесења у Алматију”
  • Serbian: “Храм Христовог Вазнесења у Алматију”
  • Slovak: “Chrám Nanebovstúpenia Pána (Alma-Ata)”
  • Slovak: “Chrám Nanebovstúpenia Pána”
  • Slovenian: “Cerkev Vnebohoda, Almati”
  • Spanish: “Catedral de la Ascension”
  • Spanish: “Catedral de la Ascensión”
  • Tagalog: “Katedral ng Ascension, Almaty”
  • Thai: “อาสนวิหารการเสด็จขึ้นสู่สวรรค์ (อัลมาเตอ)”
  • Thai: “อาสนวิหารการเสด็จขึ้นสู่สวรรค์”
  • Turkish: “Voznesensk Katedrali”
  • Ukrainian: “Вознесенський собор (Алмати)”
  • Ukrainian: “Вознесенський собор”

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