The Kazan Cathedral belongs to a monumental style of classicism epitomized by St. Peter's in Rome and continued in Jacques Germain Soufflot's Sainte Geneviève in Paris (the Panthéon, built in ...

Patriarch Kirill told a congregation at Kazan Cathedral in Moscow's Red Square on July 21 that such recognition "means people are choosing a path of self-destruction." Accessibility links.

Moscow (AsiaNews) - The Russian Orthodox patriarch Kirill (Gundjaev) yesterday consecrated the cathedral dedicated to the icon of the Mother of God in Kazan, capital of the republic of Tatarstan ...

MOSCOW, May 5. /TASS/. Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill has announced his decision to transfer the miracle-working Our Lady of Kazan icon to Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral.

The icon, revered as the “protector of Russia,” first appeared in Kazan in 1579 and hung in the Kazan Cathedral in Moscow's Red Square and the Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg before being ...