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Our Lady of Kazan, also called Mother of God of Kazan (Russian: Казанская Богоматерь, romanized: Kazanskaya Bogomater'), is a holy icon of the highest stature within the Russian Orthodox Church, representing the Virgin Mary as the protector and patroness of the city of Kazan, and a palladium of all of Russia and Rus', known as the Holy Protectress of Russia.
Church of Our Lady of Kazan (also Church of the Theotokos of Kazan, Russian: Церковь Казанской иконы Божьей Матери, Finnish: Terijoen ortodoksinen kirkko) is a Russian Orthodox church in Zelenogorsk (Finnish:Terijoki) in Russia. It was completed in 1915 while the town was a part of the Grand Duchy of Finland.
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... (11th century) of Our Lady of Kazan (1905) [44] [note 22] Icon gallery.
The iconographic tradition of the Theotokos or Madonna (Our Lady), showing the Virgin enthroned carrying the infant Christ, is established by the following century, as attested by a very small number of surviving icons, including one at Saint Catherine's Monastery in Sinai, and Salus Populi Romani, a 5th or 6th-century Byzantine icon preserved ...
The sisterhood of Shamordino Convent were imprisoned in 1923 at the closure of the convent by the Soviet authorities, first in Solovki prison camp, then the sisterhood was broken up and dispersed and, with the exception of one striking account by American prisoner John H. Noble [1] that emerged following his release some 30 years after the nuns' disappearance, it is generally unknown, apart ...
Stephen's Church (Our Lady of Kazan) (in Russian: Церковь Стефана (Казанской иконы Божией Матери)) - is a Russian Orthodox church of the Diocese of Voronezh, in the village of Uglyanets, Verkhnekhavsky District, Voronezh Oblast.
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, many Russian icons have been repatriated via direct purchase by Russian museums, private Russian collectors, or as was the case of Pope John Paul II giving an 18th-century copy of the famous Our Lady of Kazan icon to the Russian Orthodox Church, returned to Russia in good faith. [7]
After the fall of the Soviet Union, the Kazan Cathedral was the first church to be completely rebuilt after having been destroyed by the Communists.The cathedral's restoration (1990–1993) was sponsored by the Moscow city branch of the All-Russian Society for Historic Preservation and Cultural Organization, and was based on the detailed measurements and photographs of the original church.