Кафедральний Хрестовоздвиженський собор Cathedral of the Exaltation of the Cross

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The main Greek Catholic church of the city was built in 1640-1646. It belonged to the Jesuits, in 1775 it was transferred to the Greek Catholics. Both the appearance and the interiors have changed many times. Now the Baroque church is decorated with a portico with four columns of the Corinthian order and two octagonal clock towers.

In 1949, the Soviet authorities transferred the cathedral to the Orthodox faith, and in 1991 it was returned to the Greek Catholics. On the sides of the entrance there are two memorial plaques - to the leader of the national revival of the 18th century, Bishop Andriy Bachynsky and Bishop Teodor Romzhi, who was killed by the NKVD in 1947.

To the left of the church is the building of the Mukachevo Greek Catholic Diocese. It was built in 1646 to house the Jesuit college. In Soviet times - the library of Uzhgorod University.

A memorial to the repressed clergy has been erected on the wall surrounding the temple.
The names of 128 priests and nuns of Sister Theophila, who suffered during the Soviet era for their faith and were sentenced to 2.482 years in prison, are engraved on eight granite slabs on either side of the cross in the form of an open book. The memorial is crowned by an ancient cross, dated 1877, found in the attic of the Cathedral - a symbol of faith, and below it as a symbol of prayer - fragments of stairs that led the faithful to the Exaltation of the Cross Cathedral.