The Cathedral of the Nativity of Christ in Riga was designed by Nikolai Chagin and Robert Pflug, and August Volz's firm made the decorations. The article names no client, saying it was built with Tsar Alexander II's blessing on the initiative of Governor-General Pyotr Bagration and Bishop Veniamin Karelin. The text dates construction to 1876 to 1883, and the infobox gives no dates.
The article calls the style Neo-Byzantine and the largest Orthodox cathedral in the Baltic provinces. It names no materials or dimensions. The bell tower and dome were gilded in 2010 for 550,000 euros.
German troops made it a Lutheran church in World War I, and it became Orthodox again in 1921. Soviet authorities closed it in the early 1960s and made it a planetarium. Restoration has continued since 1991. The article gives no hours.
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