Category:St.-Boris-der-Täufer-Kathedrale (Berlin)

English: The St. Boris the Baptizer Cathedral is the episcopal church of the Diocese of Western and Central Europe of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church. In 2002 the building, built from 1899 to 1900 by Louis Arndt as the cemetery chapel for the Cemetery No. V of the Congregation of Jerusalem's and New Church, owned by that congregation, was loaned without payment, but under the proviso of maintaining it, for 30 years to the Bulgarian Orthodox congregation with a preemption after 10 years. Provisionally inaugurated at Easter 2003, the cathedral was consecrated to Saint Boris the Baptizer, as Tzar of Bulgaria counted Boris I. Michael. The consecration took place on 29 May 2005, carried out by the Metropolite Simeon of the Western and Central Europe Diocese, Vicar Bishop Tikhon, Archimandrit Kharalampi (Varna), attended by the then prime minister of Bulgaria, Simeon Sakskoburggotski (previous Tzar Simeon II).