Church of the Deposition of the Robe

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Church of the Deposition of the Robe (part of Kremlin), or Tserkov Rizopolozheniya was built in 1484-1485 by a team of architects from Pskov (the same year they began to build the Annunciation Cathedral). It’s an illustration in point of the Russian medieval architecture. The round vault of the cube-shaped church leans on four pillars. With its single dome it looks tiny next to the tree magnificent cathedrals on Sobornaya Square.

Till the mid-17th century it was a domestic church of the metropolitans; then it was connected with the Grand Prince’s palace via the covered passage and was used by the family of the Grand Prince.

The Church is named after the feast day known in Byzantium since early 5th century, when the robe supposed to belong to the Virgin Mary was taken to Constantinople from Palestine. The impressive iconostasis dated 1627 was mainly created by the Court icon painter Nazary Istomin. In the gallery of the church there is unique exhibition of Russian wooden sculpture of 15th-19th centuries.

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