Photos

I posted already several pictures of St. Basil Cathedral and hope that you like this new photo too, which I took 1 week ago sitting on the stones of the Red Square and trying to make another angle, view on this church. Also I would like to say sorry for my silence on TE to all photographers who were waiting some new photos from me during this summer. I was pretty busy with my clients and renovation in my apartment, so that I had not time to work with my photo albums. Hope to improve this situation a bit later and upload many interesting photos soon.

All tourists, which coming to Moscow, are trying to see this beautiful cathedral on the Red Square right on the first day of their arrival. All my American clients told me after the first glance on it: "It looks like Disney Land, but not like a fake. it is real!"

The famous St Basil Cathedral is a delightful array of swirling colors and redbrick towers. Its design comprises nine individual chapels, each topped with a unique onion dome and each commemorating a victorious assault on the city of Kazan. The church's design is based on deep religious symbolism and was meant to be an architectural representation of the New Jerusalem - the Heavenly Kingdom described in the Book of Revelation of St. John the Divine. It was built in the 16th century (1555-1561) on Red Square by Ivan the Terrible. St. Basil's Cathedral is unique among Moscow's churches. It is not simply a place where people came to pray but is also itself an icon in stone.

St. Basil Cathedral is the prime example of tent-roof churches began to be seen at the end of the 15th century and were widespread in the 16th and 17th centuries, but construction of tent-like churches was strictly forbidden by Patriarch Nikon, who was famous with his reforms in Russian Orthodox Church in the middle of 17th century, in an attempt to bring the Rus church closer to the Byzantine models.

With BEST Regards,
Arthur Lookianov
Personal Guide & Driver in Moscow
Moscow Photo Gallery