Cathedral of the Christ Saviour, Republika Srpska
Cathedral of Christ the Savior is a Serbian Orthodox Cathedral located in Banja Luka, Republika Srpska. The cathedral was built between 1925 and 1929 as the Church of the Holy Trinity and was consecrated in 1939. It was seriously damaged German bombing during the World War II in 1941 and completely destroyed by the pro-Nazi UstaĊĦe in the same year. The communist authorities did not allow the rebuilding of the church after World War II and instead build the memorial to soldiers killed in World War II.The Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Banja Luka gained the permission to rebuild the destroyed church in the beginning of 1990's. The World War II memorial was relocated and rebuilding finally began in 1993 when Patriarch Pavle, the spiritual leader of the Serbian Orthodox Church consecrated the foundation stone. Cathedral of the Holy Trinity was rebuilt as the Church of the Christ Savior in 2004 but the interior is still under construction.
