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On November 21, 1917, the cathedral was the setting for the installation of Tikhon (Bellavin), the Metropolitan of Moscow, as the first patriarch of the restored Patriarchate of Moscow. However, following the 1917 Russian Revolution , the new Bolshevik government closed all churches in the Moscow Kremlin, and converted the cathedral into a museum.
The Dormition cathedral as seen from the distance in 1911. The Cathedral Church of the Dormition (Russian: Успенский собор [1]), dominating the city of Smolensk, Russia, from Cathedral Hill, has been the principal church of the Smolensk bishopric for 800 years.
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]
In 1718 it was damaged during a Kyiv city fire. In 1729 cathedral was restored in Ukrainian Baroque and expanded. Built in the 11th century, the main church of the monastery was destroyed during the World War II , a couple of months after the Nazi Germany troops occupied the city of Kyiv , during which the Soviet Union conducted the ...
On October 8, at the Dormition Cathedral of the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius was elevated to the rank of Metropolitan by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia. [10] From 28 December 2011 [11] to 18 March 2012 and from 29 May 2013 to 25 January 2014, he was temporarily in charge the Kamensk diocese. [12]
The historical Transfiguration Cathedral in Odesa has been badly damaged by Russian strikes, the city council said.Footage shows debris scattered across the floor of the site after missiles hit ...
The Dormition cathedral, erected by Rostov masters in 1497, was the largest monastery church built in Russia up to that date. Its 17th-century iconostasis features many ancient icons , arranged in five tiers above a silver heaven gate endowed by Tsar Alexis in 1645.
Yakov Grigorievich Bukhvostov (Russian: Яков Григорьевич Бухвостов), a serf of Russian boyar Mikhail Tatishchev, designed the so-called "octagon on cube" churches in the Naryshkin Baroque mode. He was active in the 1690s in Moscow and Ryazan, where he supervised the construction of the new Dormition Cathedral in the