The temple of the icon of the Kazan Mother of God
Russia, Nizhny Novgorod, Ilyinskaya St. (at the intersection with the Zelensky Congress).
Description:
The Church of the Icon of the Kazan Mother of God – this Orthodox church belongs to the architectural monument of federal significance. The church was built on the site of the Velikhorzhsky male desert of the Moscow Simonov Monastery, founded in the distant XIV century. This church, erected in honor of the icon of the Kazan Mother of God, is closely connected with many historical events in Russia.
With the temple of the icon of the Kazan Mother of God are closely related the names of Tsar Ivan the Terrible,
Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich.
After a long time of oblivion, the church was resumed at Easter in 1944. On February 20, 1995, the church of the icon of the Kazan Mother of God was awarded the status of an architectural monument of federal significance.