Kazan Cathedral built

Name: Kazan Cathedral built
Start: 1625

1625 CE.

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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.

Text from the Wikipedia article Kazan Cathedral, Moscow, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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