Kazan Cathedral
Also known as Казанский собор
1801
Neoclassical
cathedral
Voronikhin's cathedral solves a genuinely difficult problem: a Russian Orthodox church whose main liturgical entrance faces north, away from Nevsky Prospekt, requiring an alternative monumental facade toward the city's principal artery.…
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- 1801
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