St. Nicholas Cathedral
The St. Nicholas Cathedral in Nizhyn is the main Eastern Orthodoxy church of Nizhyn eparchy in Ukraine. The powerful centric 55-metres high building with five domes has become a prototype Ukrainian baroque architecture of stone five-domed cruciform churches.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Church
- Description: church building in Nizhyn, Ukraine
- Also known as: “Sobor sviatoho Mykolaia Chudotvortsia” and “St. Nicholas Cathedral, Nizhyn”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Post Station in Nizhyn and Monastery of the Annunciation, Nizhyn.
Post Station in Nizhyn
Museum
Photo: Kiyanka, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Post Station in Nizhyn is a museum, which is situated 170 metres south of St. Nicholas Cathedral.
Monastery of the Annunciation, Nizhyn
Monastery
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Monastery of the Annunciation, Nizhyn is situated 170 metres west of St. Nicholas Cathedral.
Ivan Spaskyi Local History Museum in Nizhyn
Museum
Photo: Demmarcos, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ivan Spaskyi Local History Museum in Nizhyn is situated 270 metres southwest of St. Nicholas Cathedral.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nizhyn and Nizhynske.
Nizhyn
Town
Photo: V1snyk, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Nizhyn is a city located in Chernihiv Oblast of northern Ukraine along the Oster River. The city is located 116 km north-east of the national capital Kyiv.
Nizhynske
Village
Photo: SnizhokAM, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Nizhynske is a village, which is situated 6 km southwest of St. Nicholas Cathedral.
Kropyvne
Village
Photo: Toriyamv, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kropyvne is a village, which is situated 8 km southwest of St. Nicholas Cathedral.
St. Nicholas Cathedral
- Categories: Eastern Orthodox cathedral, cathedral, building, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Nizhyn Raion, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Latitude
51.04806° or 51° 2′ 53″ northLongitude
31.88709° or 31° 53′ 14″ eastOpen location code
9G3H2VXP+6ROpenStreetMap ID
way 723396207OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap feature
building=cathedralWikidata ID
Q4320534
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Ukrainian—“St. Nicholas Cathedral” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “聖尼古拉斯大教堂”
- German: “Kathedrale des heiligen Nikolaus”
- German: “Nikolaus-Kathedrale”
- German: “Nikolauskathedrale”
- German: “Sobor swjatoho Mykolaja Tschudotworzja”
- German: “St.-Nikolaus-Kathedrale”
- Polish: “Sobór św. Mikołaja w Nieżynie”
- Polish: “Sobór św. Mikołaja w Niżynie”
- Russian: “Николаевский Собор УПЦ МП”
- Russian: “Николаевский собор”
- Russian: “Собор Святого Николая (Нежин)”
- Spanish: “Catedral de San Nicolás (Nizhyn)”
- Spanish: “Catedral de San Nicolás”
- Ukrainian: “Миколаївський кафедральний собор (Ніжин)”
- Ukrainian: “Миколаївський собор”
- Ukrainian: “Свято-Миколаївський собор УПЦ МП”
- Ukrainian: “Собор Святого Миколая Чудотворця”
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