Europe · Germany · Goslar
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Baltic Sea · Russia · Saint Petersburg
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Russia · Moscow
The Chapel of Andronikov Monastery of the Saviour in Voronya Street is the old name of the chapel. Voronya Street was situated in place of Voronya Sloboda.
It was a Russian custom to build chapels where people said their farewells (Rus.: proshchatsya) to leaving travellers. Proshcha is a traditional name for many chapels situated by town gates o...
Volga River · Russia · Kazan
The Qolsharif Mosque is the main Muslim temple in Kazan and the Republic of Tatarstan.
Construction of the Mosque within the Kazan Kremlin began in 1996 (in November of 1995, the Tatarstan President issued a corresponding decree). It was a recreation of a legendary multi-minaret mosque that situated in the capital of the Khanate of Kazan, the ce...
Dnieper River · Ukraine · Kiev
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Europe · Austria · Vienna
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Volga River · Russia · Kashin
The Resurrection Cathedral stands on the town's highest point, the so called Dukhova Hill where in the 13th – 15th centuries strong fortifications, earth walls, moats, wooden walls and towers were constructed.
This former Kremlin is reminded of by the high mounds, which have survived nearby. According to chronicles, the Cathedral existed as earl...
Kama River · Russia · Cherdyn
The Resurrection Cathedral was built in 1750 on the site of the dilapidated wooden Resurrection Church, on one of the seven hills in the centre of the town of Cherdyn.
The Cathedral, featuring a Resurrection side altar, was consecrated in 1754.
Two more side altars were added to this double-height Cathedral: one in 1751, on the southern side,...
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