🏛 Epiphany Cathedral in Yelokhovo

A five-domed Empire-style cathedral with rich decoration, for a long time Moscow's cathedral church.

In 1799 Alexander Pushkin was baptised here, in the earlier church; a plaque of 1991 at the entrance recalls this.
The current cathedral was built from 1835 to 1845, designed by Yevgraf Tyurin; its domed rotunda echoes St Peter's in Rome.
The wooden Epiphany church in the village of Yelokhovo is first mentioned in 1694.
From 1938 to 1991 the church was the Patriarchal cathedral; enthronements of patriarchs took place here in 1943, 1945, 1971 and 1990.
Patriarchs Sergius and Alexy II are buried in the cathedral; Sergius's tombstone of 1949 was Alexei Shchusev's last work.

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