Cathedral of St. Sophia

The Cathedral of St. Sophia in Veliky Novgorod is the cathedral church of the Archbishop of Novgorod and the mom church of the Novgorodian Eparchy. The 38-metre-excessive, five-domed, stone cathedral changed into constructed by means of Vladimir of Novgorod among 1045 and 1050 to update an oaken cathedral additionally built by means of Bishop Joachim the Korsunian inside the late 10^th century. It became consecrated by means of Bishop Luka Zhidiata on September 14, in 1050 or 1052, the banquet of the Exaltation of the Cross. While it is commonly referred to as St. Sophia's, it is not named for any of the girl saints of that call; as a substitute, the call comes from the Greek for wisdom, and consequently Novgorod's cathedral is dedicated to the Holy Wisdom of God, in imitation of the Hagia Sophia cathedral of Constantinople.

It replaced a fair older wood, 13-domed church built in or round 989 through Bishop Ioakim Korsunianin, the first bishop of Novgorod. The major, golden cupola, became gilded by means of Archbishop Ioann in 1408. The sixth dome crowns a tower which results in the higher galleries. In medieval instances those have been said to preserve the Novgorodian treasury and there was a library there, stated to had been started out by means of Yaroslav the Wise. When the library become moved to the St. Petersburg Spiritual Academy in 1859, it numbered extra than 1,500 volumes, some courting returned to the 13th century.