🏛 Annunciation Cathedral

Кремль, 2

The oldest church in the Kremlin: a five-domed white-stone cathedral from the 16th century, built by Pskov masters.

The cathedral was consecrated on 15 August 1562; it was built by masters led by Postnik Yakovlev and Ivan Shiryai, the authors of St Basil's Cathedral.
It is the oldest surviving monument in the Kremlin and in the whole city.
The stone was brought from the high opposite bank of the Volga; it is Volga limestone.
From 1552 to 1918 it was the cathedral church of the Kazan diocese.
The five-domed church on six pillars followed the plan of the Dormition Cathedral in the Moscow Kremlin.
The cathedral's bell tower was destroyed in the 1920s–1930s.

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