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Cathedral of St. Sophia in Novgorod fortress, Russia #261205984
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The Cathedral of Holy Wisdom the Holy Wisdom of God, or Cathedral of St. Sophia in Veliky Novgorod is the cathedral church of the Metropolitan of Novgorod and the mother church of the Novgorodian Eparchy. The 38-metre-high, five-domed, stone cathedral was built by Vladimir of Novgorod and Bishop Luka Zhidiata between 1045 and 1050 to replace an oaken cathedral built by Bishop Ioakim Korsunianin in the late tenth century