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Dormition Cathedral
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Russian Orthodox church in Moscow Kremlin in Russia
Key facts
- Location
- Moscow
- Country
- Russia
- Denomination
- Russian Orthodox
- Website
- assumption-cathedral .kreml .ru
- Style
- Russian
- Years built
- 1475–1479
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- architectural landmark
- Part of
- Kremlin
- Named after
- Dormition of the Mother of God
- Religion
- Eastern Orthodoxy
- Country
- Tsardom of Russia
- Located in
- Tverskoy District
- Material used
- limestone
- Dedicated to
- Dormition of the Mother of God
- Official website
- assumption-cathedral.kreml.ru
- Image
- Dormition (Kremlin).JPG
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- diocese
- Moscow Eparchy
- Commons category
- Assumption Cathedral in Moscow
- architect
- Aristotile Fioravanti
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- architectural style
- Russian architecture
- street address
- Москва, Кремль
- inception
- 1475-00-00
Sources (7)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Cathedral of the Dormition (Russian: Успенский собор, romanized: Uspenskiy sobor), also known as the Assumption Cathedral or Cathedral of the Assumption, is a Russian Orthodox church dedicated to the Dormition of the Theotokos. It is located on the north side of Cathedral Square of the Moscow Kremlin in Russia, where a narrow alley separates the north from the Patriarch's Palace with the Twelve Apostles Church. Separately in the southwest, also separated by a narrow passage from the church, stands the Palace of Facets. The cathedral is regarded as the mother church of Muscovite Russia.
The cathedral was originally constructed using stone in 1326 under Ivan I. The cathedral was rebuilt between 1475 and 1479 at the behest of the grand prince Ivan III to a design by the Italian architect Aristotele Fioravanti. From 1547 to 1896, the coronation of Russian monarchs took place here. In addition, the cathedral is the burial place for most of the Moscow Metropolitans and Patriarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church; it also serves as a part of the Moscow Kremlin Museums.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dormition Cathedral” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.