05 — The Resurrection Cathedral

The visible center of Japanese Orthodoxy: the Holy Resurrection Cathedral on Surugadai hill in Tokyo, consecrated in 1891 and known to the city as “Nikolai-do”; and the life of the Church in the Meiji era around it — a Russian foundation that had become, in a generation, a Japanese institution.

This section covers the great cathedral — its building, its place on the Tokyo skyline, its damage in the 1923 earthquake and rebuilding — and the Meiji-era Church gathered around it.

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nikolai-do.md Holy Resurrection Cathedral, Tokyo (1891); architects Shchurupov and Conder; the funding; “Nikolai-do”; the 1923 earthquake and the 1929 rebuilding.
the-church-in-the-meiji-era.md The Church within Meiji Japan: religious freedom, modernization, the social makeup of the converts, and the place of an Orthodox mission in a rapidly Westernizing empire.

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