INTERCESSION CATHEDRAL,
ST. BASIL'S CATHEDRAL
second half of the 16th century were reflected in
Virgin on the Moat (St. Basil's Cathedral) is the program of the church’s dedication to the
one of the most significant monuments of the churches: the appearance in the Vyatka lands of
ancient Russian architecture of the XVI the new image of Nicholas the Wonderworker,
century. The cathedral was erected in 1555– the glorification of the Monks Varlaam Khutinsky
1561. at the behest of tsar Ivan the Terrible in and Alexander Svirsky. The Eastern Church is
honor of the conquest of the Kazan kingdom. dedicated to the main dogma of the Christian
faith - the Holy Trinity. The Western Church of the
The central church was consecrated in the Entry into Jerusalem links the cathedral with the
name of the Protection of the Most Holy image of the City of Heaven.
Theotokos. Four churches - the Three The Pokrovsky Cathedral has unique wall
Patriarchs of Constantinople, Cyprian and paintings, an impressive collection of Old
Justina, Alexander Svirsky and Gregory of Russian icon painting and masterpieces of
Armenia - were consecrated in the name of church applied art. The ensemble of ten
the saints, on whose memory important events churches with full iconostases, whose interiors
of the campaign took place. Other important reflect the four-century history of the temple, is
events of the Russian spiritual life of the unique.
The Cathedral of the Intercession of the Holy