🏛 Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God in Kolomenskoye

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A working five-domed church from the mid-17th century with blue domes, built under Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich: it was a palace church, with a wooden palace next to it.

Stone churches of the Kazan Icon, this one included, began to be built after 1649, when veneration of the Kazan Icon was introduced church-wide in honour of the birth of Tsarevich Dmitry.
It was a household church: a passage about 50 metres long linked it to the wooden royal palace.
The exact date of construction is disputed; the brick church was most likely built in 1662–1670.
The north porch serves as the base of the tented bell tower.
Services here were almost never interrupted: the church was closed only in 1941–1942.
The main shrine is the Derzhavnaya (Sovereign) Icon of the Mother of God: it was found in Kolomenskoye on 2 (15) March 1917, the day Nicholas II abdicated, and returned here in 1990.
According to legend, the Virgin Mary twice showed the peasant woman Evdokia the icon's location in a dream — it was found in the cellar of the neighbouring Church of the Ascension.