November 15, 1932 - The Museum of Religious History opens in the Kazan Cathedral in Leningrad.
Kazan Cathedral is one of the largest religious buildings in St. Petersburg. Built on the site of the dilapidated Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary in 1811, the very next year after the end of the Patriotic War of 1812, the temple became a kind of monument to victory. Field Marshal M. J. He was also buried here. Kutuzov.
With the rise of the Bolsheviks to power, the persecution of the Church, which occurred everywhere under Soviet rule, also affected the Kazan Cathedral. In January 1932, the cathedral was closed, the cross was removed from the dome of the cathedral and a golden ball with a spire was installed in its place.
On November 15, 1932, the State Museum of the History of Religion and Atheism was opened in the Kazan Cathedral.
It was astonishing with the variety of foundations created on a confessional principle; His collections contain exhibits on the history of religions from ancient times to the present day; The exhibition shows the evolution of religious beliefs from the earliest forms to the present day.