Also known as the Cathedral of Coronation, this architectural structure is the artistic expressionof the Romanian unity and was built by the act from 1918 in Alba Iulia, Alba county, Romania.
It's architecture is inspired by the royal church from Targoviste and is a part of the romanic current initiated in the Romanian art from the past decades of the last century and wich proposed to itself to promote the medieval art creation from the south of the Carpathians.
Built between 1921 and 1923, after the plans of the architect D. Ghe. Stefanescu, under the management of the engineer T. Eremia, here were crowned the sovereigns of the Great Romania, on the fifth of octomber, year 1922. The cathedral is also called the Coronation Cathedral for those events that took place.
The edifice has the shape of a greek cross , an open porch and you can enter inside it through a rectangular narthex with three vault arch segments.
The painting from inside are made in the spirit of the traditional iconography by the painter Constantin Petrescu.
On both sides of the doorway are posted on the wall the portraits of the sovereigns of the Great Romania, the king Ferdinand the first and his wife, Maria. These portraits are pointing the historycal significance of the monumental construction.
The iconostasis and pews were made by oak wooden with the same decorations inspired from the brancovenesc inspiration.
