Holy Places

Church of Our Lady of Kazan in Kolomenskoye Russia · Moscow

Construction of the Church of Our Lady of Kazan was planned by Michael Romanov, the first Russian Tsar of the house of Romanov. He wanted to build it in memory of the deliverance from the 1612 Polish intervention. However, the Church was constructed as late as in 1651 during the reign of Aleksey Romanov and timed to the birth of his son and heir Ts...

Church of Our Lady of Kazan, Valaam Monastery Town House Baltic Sea · Russia · Saint Petersburg

The acres at the intersection of Narvsky and Staro-Petergofsky Avenues, where the Valaam Town House is situated today, were owned by the Old Ladoga Dormition Convent in the early 20th century. The age of the Monastery and the Town House is reckoned from July 1905. In 1910, the main altar was consecrated in honour of the Our Lady of Kazan Icon. T...

Church of Panaghia Kapnikarea Mediterranean Sea · Greece · Athens

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Church of San Giorgio Maggiore Mediterranean Sea · Italy · Venice

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Church of Sophia the Holy Wisdom of God by the Cannon Court Russia · Moscow

According to historians, it is quite probable that the Church of Sophia the Holy Wisdom of God emerged due to the settlement of former Novgorod inhabitants in Moscow in the late 15th century. The street laid out here was named Sofiyskaya Street, after the Church. The now-existing Church was built in 1692 on the site of a wooden church, which was...

Church of SS. Athanasius and Cyril Volga River · Russia · Yaroslavl

In the early 17th century, two suburban wooden churches stood on the future site of the Monastery in Sovetskaya Street (then Proboynaya Street), the Church of Resurrection and the Church of SS. Cyril and Athanasius. According to legend, the construction of the Monastery is connected with the deliverance of the city from the pestilence in 1612, when...

Church of SS. Boris and Gleb, Borisoglebskaya Church Moscow Oblast · Russia · Kolomna

The Church of SS. Martyrs Boris and Gleb "located behind the Kolomenka River" was mentioned in the 16th-century documents among other city churches. The church remained wooden till the 17th century. The funds of well-to-do citizens of Zaprudskaya Village K. Zhitnikov and N. Nabokov were used to build a stone church in 1716–1726. In the lat...

Church of SS. Cosmas and Damian in Maroseyka Street Russia · Moscow

The now-existing SS. Cosmas and Damian Church in Maroseyka Street was built in 1793. However, a church had already existed at the same place before. Thus two churches are distinguished: the old and the new one. It is not known for sure when and by whom the old SS. Cosmas and Damian Church was built. It is known for certainty though that the chur...

Church of SS. Florus and Laurus in Zatsepa Street Russia · Moscow

Since the 16th century, a settlement of coachmen was situated at the site of the Church. From 1685 to 1722, a Moscow customs boarder went there: a place where people coming to the town must pay purchase taxes. Carts with goods and foodstuffs stopped in the line ("tsep" in Russian) and stayed there till the tax was paid. There is another opinion, th...

Church of SS. Peter and Paul Russia · Suzdal

The Church of SS. Peter and Paul (SS. Peter and Paul's Church) was built in 1694 near the southern wall of Pokrovsky Monastery. SS. Peter and Paul's Church is one of the most monumental buildings of late Suzdal architecture. The Church was merged with the Pokrovsky Monastery ensemble, which ordered the construction. The Church was merged with th...