Key facts
- Location
- Moscow
- Country
- Russia
- Denomination
- Russian Orthodox
- Website
- Official home page
- Consecrated
- 1625, destroyed 1936; reconsecrated 1993
- Style
- Russian
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- architectural landmark
- Named after
- Our Lady of Kazan
- Religion
- Eastern Orthodoxy
- Country
- Russia
- Located in
- Tverskoy District
- Founded by
- Dmitry Pozharsky
- Material used
- brick
- Official website
- www.kazanski-sobor.ru/_index.php
- Image
- 00l 2010 Moskau, Kathedrale der Maria von Kasan.jpg
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- Commons category
- Cathedral of Our Lady of Kazan
- diocese
- Moscow Eparchy
- architectural style
- Russian Revival architecture
- inception
- 1625-00-00
- native label
- Казанский собор
- directions
- Никольская улица, 3 (1) / Красная площадь
- street address
- Никольская улица, 3
- postal code
- 109012
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Encyclopedic overview
Kazan Cathedral (Russian: Казанский собор, romanized: Kazanskiy sobor), formally known as the "Cathedral of Our Lady of Kazan", is a Russian Orthodox church located on the northwest corner of Red Square in Moscow, Russia. The current building is a reconstruction of the original church, which was destroyed on the orders of Joseph Stalin in 1936.
The original cathedral
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kazan Cathedral” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.