Kazan Cathedral

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  • Address
    Nikolskaya ul 3, Red Square
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  • Transport
    underground rail: Ploshchad Revolyutsii

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The tiny Kazan Cathedral, opposite the northern end of GUM, is a 1993 replica. The original was founded in 1636 in thanks for the 1612 expulsion of Polish invaders (for two centuries it housed the Virgin of Kazan icon, which supposedly helped to rout the Poles). Three hundred years later the cathedral was completely demolished, allegedly because it impeded the flow of celebrating workers in May Day and Revolution Day parades.