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People's Salvation Cathedral

Romania's new national cathedral beside the Palace of the Parliament, among the tallest Orthodox churches in the world.

Photo: MIHAIL · CC BY-SA 4.0
Open
Every day
Price
Free
Time Needed
45 minutes
Address
Calea 13 Septembrie, 050711 BucharestDirections
Getting There
Behind the Palace of the Parliament, a 15-minute walk from Izvor station.

Why Go

The cathedral rises 127 meters on a hill next to the parliament palace. It was built in this century and consecrated in 2018, a hundred years after Romania's union, and its interior is covered in mosaics and paintings.

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