Assumption Cathedral (Sergiyev Posad) | listed building / architectural heritage, Russian Orthodox Church, 16th century construction

Russia / Moskovskaja Oblast / Sergiyev Posad
 cathedral, listed building / architectural heritage, Russian Orthodox Church, 16th century construction
Ivan the Terrible commissioned the six-pillared Assumption Cathedral in 1559. It took 26 years to construct. The cathedral is much larger than its model and namesake in the Moscow Kremlin. The magnificent iconostasis of the 16th–18th centuries features Simon Ushakov's masterpiece, the icon of Last Supper. Interior walls were painted with violet and blue frescoes by a team of Yaroslavl masters in 1684. The vault contains burials of Boris Godunov, his family and several 20th-century patriarchs.

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Coordinates:   56°18'37"N   38°7'50"E
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