Holy Places

Iveron Chapel of the Resurrection Cathedral Sacristy Baltic Sea · Russia · Saint Petersburg

The Chapel was built in 1907, upon the design by architect Alfred Parland. It was consecrated on 27 April 1908. In November 1930, the Chapel was shut down....

Kalampaka Cathedral Mediterranean Sea · Greece · Kalambaka

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Kappele, Church of the Visitation Europe · Germany · Wurzburg

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Kapuzinerberg and Capuchin Monastery Europe · Austria · Salzburg

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Kazan Cathedral Baltic Sea · Russia · Saint Petersburg

The Our Lady of Kazan is one of the main sacred icons of the Russians. Its ancient wonder-working copy was a favourite icon of the House of Romanov. The icon's prototype that miraculously appeared in Kazan in 1579 and was protected by Minin and Pozharsky's militia in 1612 was lost (stolen from the Kazan Monastery) in the early 20th century. Its tra...

Kazan Cathedral Black Sea · Ukraine · Feodosiya

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Kazan Cathedral on Red Square Russia · Moscow

Construction of the Cathedral that is dedicated to Our Lady of Kazan was financed by Duke Dmitry Pozharsky as gratitude toward God for the victory over the Poles of 1620. In 1650, a bell tower was built. The Cathedral had been repeatedly reconstructed and finally completely demolished in 1936. Architect Pyotr Baranovsky was lucky to measur...

Kazan Monastery Volga River · Russia · Yaroslavl

The Monastery was founded in 1610 instead of the previous one, which burned down during the 1609 siege of the Poles. A copy of the Our Lady of Kazan Icon, which is dated back to the 16th century, became a Monastery's sacred object. According to legend, defenders of Yaroslavl moved the wonder-working icon from one church to another as the enemy f...

Kazan Monastery Russia · Nizhny Lomov

There is a big two-storey building, made of old bricks, at the foot of the hill, two kilometres away from the western fringes of Nizhny Lomov. Its hollow sockets of the facade window openings look out on the south-east. Until the 1917 Russian Revolution, the building was hidden behind a stone wall and was a part of the Kazan Friary that was foun...

Klobukov Monastery Volga River · Russia · Kashin

Why is the Monastery called Klobukov? There are several versions of this. First of all, a legend, which tells how a monk klobuk (a headgear) was found there? When Archbishop St. John of Novgorod is fabled to ride a demon to Jerusalem, he lost his klobuk in Kashin. The Saint enjoined to build a monastery where the klobuk was found. The second ver...