[1] However, it is not the tallest; Săpânța-Peri Monastery church in Romania, at 78 metres (256 ft), Ascension Cathedral in Kazakhstan, at 56 metres (184 ft) meters, and St. George's Cathedral in Guyana, at 43.5 metres (143 ft), are taller.
It has been rumoured that the size of the church was the result of a miscalculation when it was built (supposedly the architect was working in centimetres, which the builder misunderstood to be inches, which are 2.54 times larger).
Further studies, however, have shown that the church was actually intended to be as big as it is, so it could easily accommodate a half of the area's population at the same time.
During wintertime, services are held in a smaller "winter church" (built in 1953, re-modelled in 1997 [1]), since the main building has no heating.
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