Chapter A negative heritage. The Orthodox cathedral at the Saski Square in Warsaw

The article is devoted to a historical, now non-existent building: the Orthodox cathedral of Saint Alexander Nevsky, which the Russians built in Warsaw’s Saski Square in the years 1894–1912. I treat this initiative as one of spatial practices aimed at demonstrating power and symbolically marking the...

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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1565012025-03-07T15:22:38Z Chapter A negative heritage. The Orthodox cathedral at the Saski Square in Warsaw Hołda, Renata city ethnographic research cultural anthropology city in an interdisciplinary perspective urban studies The article is devoted to a historical, now non-existent building: the Orthodox cathedral of Saint Alexander Nevsky, which the Russians built in Warsaw’s Saski Square in the years 1894–1912. I treat this initiative as one of spatial practices aimed at demonstrating power and symbolically marking the subordinated space. I argue that the Russian initiators and builders of the cathedral treated this object instrumentally, as an opportunity to mark their dominance. This meant that in the new political reality, after Poland had regained its independence, the building was considered a negative heritage and was ultimately demolished. 2025-03-07T15:22:35Z 2025-03-07T15:22:35Z 2023 chapter ONIX_20250307_9788383314099_2151 9788383314099 9788383314082 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/156501 pol image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://www.press.uni.lodz.pl/index.php/wul/catalog/book/763 Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego 10.18778/8331-408-2.10 The article is devoted to a historical, now non-existent building: the Orthodox cathedral of Saint Alexander Nevsky, which the Russians built in Warsaw’s Saski Square in the years 1894–1912. I treat this initiative as one of spatial practices aimed at demonstrating power and symbolically marking the subordinated space. I argue that the Russian initiators and builders of the cathedral treated this object instrumentally, as an opportunity to mark their dominance. This meant that in the new political reality, after Poland had regained its independence, the building was considered a negative heritage and was ultimately demolished. 10.18778/8331-408-2.10 83bfe9c9-323d-4283-b087-d859fd9af314 9788383314099 9788383314082 157-171 open access
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