Kazan Cathedral
The Kazan Cathedral was built on the site of a church that stood in the 18th century. on Kazan Square, Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In ancient written monuments preserved in the archives, there are indications that in 1705 in St. Petersburg, near the old Gostiny Dvor on the St. Petersburg side, there stood the Kazan Chapel, named in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God. Empress Anna Ioannovna, who especially revered the miraculous Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, decided to build a church.
Address:
St. Petersburg, Kazanskaya sq., 2
On September 15, 1811, almost 10 years after the foundation of the cathedral, on the day of the coronation of Alexander I, the cathedral was solemnly consecrated.
The consecration was performed by Metropolitan Ambrose of Novgorod and St. Petersburg himself. Two years later, the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, already located on the territory of the new cathedral, was dismantled. The life of the new temple has begun. All church utensils and the Kazan icon were transferred to the new cathedral. The Kazan Cathedral is an outstanding monument of architecture and fine art.
This temple was built by A.N. Voronikhin in collaboration with the best sculptors and artists of the first half of the 19th century. The cathedral was built in the Empire style, in imitation of the temples of the Roman Empire. Its architecture combines the forms of a basilica (purely Roman) and cross-domed church. However, unlike the colonnade of the Roman prototype, which is an almost closed semicircle, the Voronikhin colonnade looks like a wide, strongly deployed arc of 96 Corinthian columns arranged in four rows. The colonnade attached to the cathedral, as it were, blocks the cathedral from the fair-carnival avenue. And when…. you enter the cathedral and forget about everything. Moreover, inside the cathedral you are filled with a special meaning. Inside the Kazan Cathedral, prayerful concentration reigns; everything here is filled with grandeur and solemnity. And this cathedral is not that gigantic, but no matter how many people gather here, it always seems that it can accommodate as many more.
The consecration was performed by Metropolitan Ambrose of Novgorod and St. Petersburg himself. Two years later, the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, already located on the territory of the new cathedral, was dismantled. The life of the new temple has begun. All church utensils and the Kazan icon were transferred to the new cathedral. The Kazan Cathedral is an outstanding monument of architecture and fine art.
This temple was built by A.N. Voronikhin in collaboration with the best sculptors and artists of the first half of the 19th century. The cathedral was built in the Empire style, in imitation of the temples of the Roman Empire. Its architecture combines the forms of a basilica (purely Roman) and cross-domed church. However, unlike the colonnade of the Roman prototype, which is an almost closed semicircle, the Voronikhin colonnade looks like a wide, strongly deployed arc of 96 Corinthian columns arranged in four rows. The colonnade attached to the cathedral, as it were, blocks the cathedral from the fair-carnival avenue. And when…. you enter the cathedral and forget about everything. Moreover, inside the cathedral you are filled with a special meaning. Inside the Kazan Cathedral, prayerful concentration reigns; everything here is filled with grandeur and solemnity. And this cathedral is not that gigantic, but no matter how many people gather here, it always seems that it can accommodate as many more.
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