Coronation Cathedral

The Coronation Cathedral dedicated to the Holy Trinity and the Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel, is a Romanian Orthodox cathedral positioned at 16 Mihai Viteazul Street, Alba Iulia, Romania. Built quickly after and in commemoration of the Union of Transylvania with Romania, it's miles the seat of the Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese of Alba Iulia. The cathedral and surrounding homes have been raised within the western part of the Alba Iulia Citadel, on the site of a gatehouse near the Roman Plateau. It became notion of as a continuation of the former metropolitan seat at Alba Iulia , where Michael the Brave built a stone church in 1597.

When the fort changed into rebuilt in its modern-day form in 1713-1714, the Habsburg authorities demolished this and its substances had been used to build a brand new church near where the railway station is today. A timber memorial church inside the southeastern part of the citadel marks the web page of the previous metropolitan cathedral.