St Basil's Cathedral in Moscow celebrates its 450 year anniversary of final construction and Google has helped celebrate this with a new doodle.
For further details see:
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/software/st-basils-cathedral-celebrated-in-russian-themed-google-doodle-50004384/
It has been renovated over the last 10 years which is reported to have cost as much as 8 million GBP.
See also Wikipedia for full details on the history of St Basils: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Basil's_Cathedral
Cathedral of Christ The Saviour
Another cathedral in Moscow well worth a visit, either in person or via Wikipedia is the Cathedral of Christ The Saviour in Moscow.
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| Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, Moscow |
The original Christ the Saviour was destroyed in the early 1930s during the Stalin era. It was reconstructed in the 1990s and consecrated in 2000, as have many churches and cathedrals in Russia.
Kazan Cathedral in Red Square is another rebuild, with beautiful pealing bells at 6pm.
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| Kazan Cathedral with its pretty kokoshniki |
Listen below to the bells of Kazan Cathedral during a ceremony:
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