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The Dormition Cathedral, also known as the Assumption Cathedral (Russian: Собор Успения Пресвятой Богородицы, romanized: Sobor Uspeniya Presvyatoy Bogoroditsy), is a Russian Orthodox church in Vladimir, Russia. It is regarded as the mother church of Russia through the 13th century. [1]
Dormition Cathedral is a tremendous six-pillared building with five apses and five domes. It was modeled after the Assumption Cathedral in Vladimir, in that it made extensive use of limestone masonry on a high limestone base, and was laid out as a three nave church with a vaulted cross-dome.
But neither Life of St. Sergius, the hagiographical account of his life, nor Life of St. Nikon mention The Trinity icon, it is only written the decoration of the Cathedral in 1425–1427. The only remaining fresco painted by Andrei Rublev, inside the Dormition Cathedral in Vladimir. This dating is based on the dates of the construction of both ...
The main cathedral of the diocese is the Assumption Cathedral in the Cathedral Square of Vladimir. As of 1 January 2006, 28 monasteries were in the eparchy (13 male and 15 female), including 13 metochions and sketes, as well as around 300 parishes. The ruling bishop from November 11, 1990 until 2018 was Eulogius (Smirnov), Metropolitan of ...
Saint Sampson's Cathedral; Saint Sophia Cathedral, Vologda; St. Vladimir's Cathedral (Saint Petersburg) Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral, Kazan; Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral, Saint Petersburg; Cathedral of St. Theodore Ushakov; Church of the Savior on Blood; Dormition Cathedral in Smolensk; Holy Trinity Cathedral of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra
Saint Sophia Cathedral in Novgorod: Novgorod Art Museum Saint George // Hodegetria (double-sided) c. 1100 Yuriev Monastery Dormition Cathedral, Moscow: Dormition Cathedral, Moscow: Theotokos of Vladimir c. 1100 Dormition Cathedral, Vladimir Dormition Cathedral, Moscow: State Tretyakov Gallery (Church of St. Nicholas in Tolmachi)
The Cathedral of St. Dmitrii in Vladimir, Russia was built by Vsevolod III in 1193-7. [3] It was one of several large churches he had built which also include the much larger Cathedral of Dormition, 1158–60, also in Vladimir, Russia. The cathedral was dedicated to St. Dmitrii of Salonika (St. Demetrios of Thesseloinka in Greek). The Cathedral ...
This new structural harmony is present in the new plan for the Cathedral of the Dormition. [50] The design of the cathedral was overseen by the Russian clergy to intervene if it was deemed too “latinate” for the orthodox taste. [51] The walls of the Kremlin are also a derivation of a then-outdated style of Italian fortification engineering ...