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Vyborg Cathedral

Vyborg, Leningrad Oblast, Russia
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About Vyborg Cathedral

Vyborg Cathedral was a Lutheran church in Vyborg, present day Russia, at the time Grand Duchy of Finland and later in free Finland. It was worked in 1893. At first it was known as the New Church and after 1908, when the Mikael Agricola statue was raised before the congregation, the Agricola Church. From 1925 to 1940 it was the house of God of the Diocese of Vyborg. It was additionally called the New Cathedral with the end goal to isolate it from the medieval Old Vyborg Cathedral.

In 1881 Vyborg's Finnish area was separated between the city and the encompassing provincial region. The old church of the area was left to the country ward. The city ward required another congregation, which was worked via Carl Eduard Dippell between 1889-1893 in gothic restoration style. Vyborg was vigorously shelled amid the Winter War. The sacred place side of the church building was hit by a bomb on 3 February 1940. Finland lost the city to the Soviet Union in the Moscow Peace Treaty, however vanquished it back amid the Continuation War in 1941. The church building had been incompletely disassembled by the Russians and the Finns didn't begin to fix it amid the war. In 1944 Vyborg was again lost to the Soviet Union and the house of God was completely torn separated after the war.

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