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The majestic Kazan Cathedral, located
right on the Nevsky Prospekt, is the main
cathedral of the St Petersburg Orthodox
Eparchy. It is also known as the
Cathedral of Our lady of Kazan.
The construction of the cathedral was
initiated by Pavel I. In 1799 a competition
was announces for the design of the new
cathedral, but no one of the submitted
designs was approved. Pavel I’s wish
was that the cathedral should look alike
St Peter’s Basilica in Rome.
One year later the design of the cathedral
made by an architect Andrey Voronikhin
was considered by Pavel I and approved.
The cathedral was laid in 1801 and its
construction finished in 1811. That time
Russia was in the war with Napoleon I
and the new cathedral was seen by the
citizen as the monument of the victory
of Russia in this war. Many war trophies
were placed in the cathedral in 1812. In
1813 the commander-in-chief Mikhail
Kutuzov was buried in the cathedral. In
1837 two monuments were erected in
front of the cathedral: to Mikhail Kutuzov
and to Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly.
After 1917 the Kazan Cathedral shared
the fate of many other churches in Russia
– it was closed in 1932. The Museum of
religion and atheism was opened in the
building. Only in the late 1990s the
cathedral was returned to the eparchy.
The most important sacred object of the
cathedral is the icon of Our Lady of
Kazan. It was returned to the cathedral in
2001.
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Opening hours:
Mon-Fri: from 8:30 a.m. till the end of the
night service
Sat-Sun: from 6:30 a.m. till the end of
the night service
Address:
2 Kazanskaya Square
St Petersburg
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Tel.: +7 812 314 5856
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