The Russian Church, Geneva (French: Cathédrale de l'Exaltation de la Sainte Croix, ''Cathedral of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross'') is a historic

Russian Orthodox Russian Orthodoxy (russian: Русское православие) is the body of several churches within the larger communion of Eastern Orthodox Christianity, whose liturgy is or was traditionally conducted in Church Slavonic language. Most ...

church Church may refer to: Religion * Church (building), a building for Christian religious activities * Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination * Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship * C ...

Geneva, Switzerland Geneva ( ; french: Genève ) frp, Genèva ; german: link=no, Genf ; it, Ginevra ; rm, Genevra is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous city of Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland. Situa ...

. Grand Duchess Anna Fyodorovna, who resided in Bern and Geneva after she chose to separate from Grand Duke Constantine, gave funds to build the church in 1863. It was designed by David Grimm of the

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and completed in 1866 in the fashionable Les Tranchées neighborhood of Geneva. The

Russian revival The Russian Revival style (historiographical names are: ''Russian style'', russian: русский стиль, ''Pseudo-Russian style'', russian: псевдорусский стиль, ''Neo-Russian style'', russian: нео-русский стил ...

church, with its Byzantine striped arches and gold

onion dome An onion dome is a dome whose shape resembles an onion. Such domes are often larger in diameter than the tholobate upon which they sit, and their height usually exceeds their width. These bulbous structures taper smoothly to a point. It is a typ ...

s, underwent restoration in 1966. The church remains in active use.Delegates of the Russian Orthodox Church to the 4th Pan-Orthodox Pre-Council Conference Visit Elevation of the Holy Cross Cathedral
June 11, 2009, The Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia.

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* {{Coord, 46.198882, 6.153785, display=title Churches in Geneva Russian Orthodox church buildings 19th-century Russian Orthodox church buildings Churches completed in 1863 Russian Revival architecture Eastern Orthodoxy in Switzerland 19th-century churches in Switzerland