Kazan Cathedral (Moscow)

 1993_construction, Russian Orthodox Church, object of cultural heritage of federal importance (Russia), Orthodox church

Originally this church was constructed (wooden church in early 1630s replaced by brick church in 1632) to mark the city's liberation from the Polish aggressors by the Russian people's volunteer army at the close of the Time of Troubles, Kazan Cathedral is a Russian Orthodox church located on the northeast corner of Red Square in Moscow. This is reconstruced in 1993 after the destruction by the order of the then Premier of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin in 1936. The original design was lost with later additions and Peter Baranovsky, the restoring supervisor, was criticised for not replicating the original design. The Kazan Cathedral could not be saved by Baranovsky from demolition, when Red Square was ordered to be cleared of churches for holding the military parades of the Soviet Union by Joseph Stalin in 1936.

Kazan Cathedral is the first church to be completely rebuilt after fall of Soviet Union basing on the photographs of the original church taken by Peter Baranovsky.