Everyone knows about the monument to Minin and Pozharsky in Red Square! Did you hear that the Kazan Cathedral on Nikolskaya Street near the Kremlin also preserves the memory of the liberation of Moscow from the Polish invaders? How the church was lost and when it reopened its doors to parishioners, we tell you together with Thomas magazine. A good deed of Prince Pozharsky The wooden cathedral near the shopping malls in Red Square was built in 1625 with the personal money of Dmitri Pozharsky. So the temple was a symbol of saving Russia from the Polish invaders in 1612. And his main shrine was the miraculous icon of the Mother of God, which was sent to the prince of Kazan. She accompanied the Russian army during the liberation of Moscow. From wood to stone In 1630 there was a fire in Kazan Cathedral, and it was rebuilt in stone. Mikhail Fedorovich, the first tsar of the Romanov dynasty, participated in the inauguration ceremony of the main throne in 1636. In the 17th century, the temple changed a lot: a balcony, a bell tower and a front porch appeared. Later, in the 18th - early 19th centuries, the Kazan Cathedral was restored more than once. Loss and Restoration of the Temple In 1918, the miraculous copy of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God was stolen from the cathedral. And in 1936, according to the authorities' decision, the temple itself was destroyed. Over the years, a warehouse and a canteen operated in its place. The idea to restore the Kazan Cathedral arose in the late 1980s, and on November 4, 1990, Patriarch Alexy II laid the first stone in the foundation of the temple. Exactly three years later he was sanctified. Kazan Cathedral became the first church to be restored to its historical appearance. The return of the temple In 2023, Patriarch Kirill returned to the cathedral the miraculous icon of the Kazan Mother of God - the image before which Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky once prayed. Today anyone can bow to her. - Happy Day of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God!

Everyone knows about the monument to Minin and Pozharsky in Red Square! Did you hear that the Kazan Cathedral on Nikolskaya Street near the Kremlin also preserves the memory of the liberation of Moscow from the Polish invaders? How the church was lost and when it reopened its doors to parishioners, we tell you together with Thomas magazine. A good deed of Prince Pozharsky The wooden cathedral near the shopping malls in Red Square was built in 1625 with the personal money of Dmitri Pozharsky. So the temple was a symbol of saving Russia from the Polish invaders in 1612. And his main shrine was the miraculous icon of the Mother of God, which was sent to the prince of Kazan. She accompanied the Russian army during the liberation of Moscow. From wood to stone In 1630 there was a fire in Kazan Cathedral, and it was rebuilt in stone. Mikhail Fedorovich, the first tsar of the Romanov dynasty, participated in the inauguration ceremony of the main throne in 1636. In the 17th century, the temple changed a lot: a balcony, a bell tower and a front porch appeared. Later, in the 18th - early 19th centuries, the Kazan Cathedral was restored more than once. Loss and Restoration of the Temple In 1918, the miraculous copy of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God was stolen from the cathedral. And in 1936, according to the authorities' decision, the temple itself was destroyed. Over the years, a warehouse and a canteen operated in its place. The idea to restore the Kazan Cathedral arose in the late 1980s, and on November 4, 1990, Patriarch Alexy II laid the first stone in the foundation of the temple. Exactly three years later he was sanctified. Kazan Cathedral became the first church to be restored to its historical appearance. The return of the temple In 2023, Patriarch Kirill returned to the cathedral the miraculous icon of the Kazan Mother of God - the image before which Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky once prayed. Today anyone can bow to her. - Happy Day of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God!