The icon, revered as the “protector of Russia,” first appeared in Kazan in 1579 and hung in the Kazan Cathedral in Moscow's Red Square and the Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg before being ...

The Vatican icon – known as the Mother of God of Kazan – will be turned over to the Russian Orthodox Church at the Cathedral of the Assumption in the Kremlin Aug. 28, Itar-Tass reported.

When I visited Kazan Cathedral, one of the churches the communists allowed to function, I watched as a long line of people waited to pay homage to a famous icon of the virgin and child. Among the ...

MOSCOW, May 5. /TASS/. Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill has announced his decision to transfer the miracle-working Our Lady of Kazan icon to Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral.

View Kazan cathedral, MARDI - Saint Alexander Nevsky Monastery, MERCREDI - The Narva Triumphal Arch, JEUDI - The Academy of Sciences, VENDREDI - Saint Alexander Nevsky Monastery, SAMDI - View of Neva ...

Patriarch Kirill told a congregation at Kazan Cathedral in Moscow's Red Square on July 21 that such recognition "means people are choosing a path of self-destruction." ...