Akhat-Jami is a mosque-cathedral in Donetsk, built between 1994 and 1999. It is named after Akhat Hafizovych Bragin, an entrepreneur and former president of the Shakhtar Donetsk football club, who died in a bomb attack in 1995. The building was originally intended to have only one minaret, but funding from Rinat Akhmetov enabled a second one to be built, which was eventually named after him.
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 exact period of the cemetery’s establishment is unknown. Given that the oldest preserved tombstone dates to the 19th – early 20th century, it can be gathered the cemetery was founded in that era. It cannot be found marked on old maps of the region.
The Alexander Nevsky Cathedral of Sloviansk is an Orthodox cathedral. The church has been the target of shelling due to the ongoing fighting in the region, but the cathedral remains intact.
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