Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God

The Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God in Nizhny Novgorod was laid on the eve of the Day of National Unity - November 3, 2005. It is located at the Zelensky Congress – in the place where once there was one of the most ancient Nizhny Novgorod wooden churches. Instead, in memory of the heroic events of the People’s Militia, the merchant Afanasy Olisov built the Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God from brick in 1687.

Every year to this beautiful building, largely repeating the outlines of the Kazan Cathedral on the Red Square of Moscow, on the day of veneration of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God (on the new style - November 4), a festive procession from the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin was organized, although on other days the temple was a place of pilgrimage for numerous pilgrims.

In Soviet times, a historically valuable building of the XVII century was destroyed, and the current classic for medieval Russian architecture four-pillar church with an ode to the head and bell tower was built on a completely new project, the author of which was the architect Evgeny Pestov.