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The Transfiguration Cathedral is a Russian Orthodox church in Bender. The cathedral was built between 1815 and 1820 as a symbol of liberation from the Ottoman rule.

The Transfiguration Cathedral was built in 1833-1839 in the courtyard of the half-destroyed St. Nicholas Church. The church was built in the style of classicism. In 1933, the cathedral ceased to function. Before the Second World War, it housed the Municipal State Archives. In 1941, the vault of the cathedral was destroyed by a bomb. In the post-war years, church services were resumed and continued until 1961. In the 1970s and 1980s, it was used as a sports hall. In 1989, the cathedral was transferred to the religious community.

The Transfiguration Cathedral was founded around 1036 and is, therefore, one of the oldest cathedrals in Kievan Rus. In 1239, the church was partially destroyed by the Mongol army of Batu Khan. Further damage was caused in 1611 during the Polish-Lithuanian conquest of Chernihiv. After being rebuilt in 1675, the church was again severely damaged by fire in 1750 but was restored between 1770 and 1799. The façade was plastered and the interior was renovated in the Baroque and Classical style.

The Baroque Cathedral of the Transfiguration was built between 1775 and 1779 by the "Minorites", a branch of the Franciscans. Testimony of Romania's turbulent history of the twentieth century, the church belonged successively to the Catholic Church, the Greek Catholic Church (1924) the Romanian Catholic Church (1948) and to the Greek Catholic Church again (1998).

The Transfiguration Cathedral was built mainly in the early 19th century and restored as faithfully as possible in the 1970s. The church was planned as the main church of the newly conquered Novorossiya region after the 5th Russian-Turkish war (1768-1774) and was to surpass even St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. The cathedral was built in the style of classicism between 1830 and 1835. During the Second World War, the building suffered considerable damage and was only restored in 1975.

The Transfiguration Cathedral is an Orthodox cathedral built in 1883-86. The cathedral was built according to one of Konstantin Thon's designs. In 1930, all the bells of the church were requisitioned and the bell tower was destroyed. A year later, the Stalinist authorities ordered the destruction of the cathedral, which was dynamited for building materials. After Ukraine's independence, it was impossible to rebuild the church on its original site, as new buildings had already been erected there during the Soviet period. On 9 August 1991, the municipal authorities made part of Gorky Square available for the construction of the cathedral.

The Transfiguration Cathedral in Odesa was founded in 1794 and consecrated in 1808. Originally a small religious building at the beginning of the 19th century, it became one of the largest cathedrals in the Russian Empire at the beginning of the 20th century. The original structure was demolished by the Soviets in 1936. It was rebuilt from 1999 to 2003.

The original design of the Transfiguration Cathedral was developed in St. Petersburg in 1844, including in its structure the remains of the old Basilian Church, destroyed in 1771. Construction of the cathedral began in 1851, and in 1853 the almost completed building suddenly collapsed. Due to miscalculations and insufficient strength of the local rough bricks, the bell tower collapsed one night and destroyed the whole building. The cathedral was built for the second time from 1866 to 1874 according to the project of the academician of architecture Karl Karlovich Rachau, with the participation of the professor of architecture Ernest Ivanovich Zhiber and the famous architect of St. Petersburg.

The Monastery of the Transfiguration is the largest of the monasteries around Veliko Tarnovo and the fourth in Bulgaria. It was founded during the second kingdom of Bulgaria in the 13th and 14th centuries, but the main current buildings were built in the first half of the 19th century.

Tranøy church, which was consecrated in 1775, originally had a tower above the centre of the church's cross plan, but in 1871 this was replaced by a rectangular tower above the porch on the west side. The wooden altarpiece in Baroque style dates from 1673.