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Saint Basil's Cathedral
is a church in
Red Square
in
Moscow
, Russia. It was built from 1555 to 1561 on orders from
Ivan the Terrible
and commemorates the
capture of Kazan
and
Astrakhan
. The city's tallest building until the completion of the
Ivan the Great Bell Tower
in 1600, the original building contained eight side churches arranged around the ninth, central church of
Intercession
; the tenth church was erected in 1588 over the grave of venerated local saint
Vasily (Basil)
. Although the
Bolsheviks
considered demolishing the church in the 1930s, it was spared. Since 1991 it has housed a branch of the
State Historical Museum
and hosted occasional church services.
Photograph:
Petar Milošević
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