Dormition Cathedral, actually containing two churches.

Meanwhile, the property was still run by the military, which gradually vacated the buildings, starting with Dormition Cathedral in 1964.

Building of churches higher than Dormition Cathedral was traditionally forbidden in Moscow.

One example of such restoration is the Dormition Cathedral in the Moscow Kremlin.

Dormition Cathedral is a tremendous 6 pillared building with 5 apses and 5 domes.

Elizabeth crowned herself Empress in the Dormition Cathedral on 25 April 1742.

Andrey oversaw the building of the city's Golden Gates and the Dormition Cathedral.

In 1990 the Dormition Cathedral was returned to the church for periodic religious services, only a few years before the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

Upon the transferring of the metropolitan seat in 1299, the Dormition Cathedral, Vladimir was chosen as the new cathedral.

"Some scholars believe that he not only created the Dormition Cathedral, but also began the construction of the Kremlin walls," Rossi said.

The saint took part in creation of mosaic painting in Dormition Cathedral of the Lavra.

Moscow (Krutitsy - Dormition Cathedral)

The design of the cathedral copied the Dormition Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin.

After destruction of the Dormition Cathedral during the Mongol invasion of 1240, it became the main church of the monastery.

Clockwise, from top left, the Dormition Cathedral, swimming in the Dnieper River, Arena, a war museum, soccer fans.

The eight captured Polish standards were exhibited in the Dormition Cathedral in the Moscow Kremlin.

He also served as an episcopal subdeacon at the altar and sang in the choir of the Dormition Cathedral in Penza.

On September 13, 1692, he was consecrated archbishop in the Dormition Cathedral in the Moscow Kremlin.

The Kremlin's Dormition Cathedral was built by Bolognese architect Aristotel Fioravanti.

The lavra's main Dormition Cathedral was designed by Alexey Gornostaev, who included a traditional Byzantine tower.

Buried in the Moscow Dormition Cathedral next to the tomb of the first patriarch Job, in the place which he pointed out shortly before his death.

In connection with the Romanov Dynasty Tercentenary, celebrated that same year, the remains were canonized and transferred to the nearby Dormition Cathedral.

He was active in the 1690s in Moscow and Ryazan, where he supervised the construction of the new Dormition Cathedral in the kremlin.

The federal monuments include the Dormition Cathedral, as well as an archeological site and two monuments related to World War II.

After re-emerging into daylight, check out the elaborately gilded 11th-century Dormition Cathedral, reconstructed after its destruction in World War II.