Moscow's Sacred Sites

Moscow’s religious landscape encompasses centuries of architectural evolution, from the 16th-century tent-roofed Church of the Ascension in Kolomenskoye to the neo-Gothic Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. The selection includes the Kremlin’s historic cathedrals, the primary seat of the Russian Patriarch at Danilov Monastery, and the Naryshkin Baroque style of the Church of the Intercession at Fili. These sites house significant Russian icons, royal burial vaults, and fortified monastic complexes that once defended the city's southern borders.

Saint Basil's Cathedral

Also known as Cathedral of Vasily the Blessed, this church is surely one of the most iconic sights in Moscow.

Cathedral of Christ the Saviour

The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour is a Russian Orthodox cathedral in Moscow, Russia, on the northern bank of the Moskva River, a few…

Assumption Cathedral

The Cathedral of the Dormition, also known as the Assumption Cathedral or Cathedral of the Assumption, is a Russian Orthodox church…

Novodevichy Convent

Novodevichy Convent, also known as Bogoroditse-Smolensky Monastery, is probably the best-known cloister of Moscow.

Kazan Cathedral

Kazan Cathedral, formally known as the "Cathedral of Our Lady of Kazan", is a Russian Orthodox church located on the northwest corner of…

Church of the Intercession at Fili

The Church of the Intercession at Fili is a Naryshkin baroque church commissioned by the boyar Lev Naryshkin in his suburban estate Fili;…

Hram Uspenia Presvatoj Bogorodicy v Putinkah

A mid-17th-century Orthodox church in the Tversky District, notable as one of the last examples of traditional Russian tent-roofed architecture before the style was prohibited by Patriarch Nikon.

Donskoy Monastery

Donskoy Monastery is a major monastery in Moscow, founded in 1591 in commemoration of Moscow's deliverance from the threat of an invasion…

Monastery of the Holy Mandylion, Moscow

The Monastery of the Holy Mandylion or Zaikonospassky Monastery is an Orthodox monastery on the Nikolskaya Street in Kitai-gorod, Moscow,…

Cathedral of the Archangel

The Cathedral of the Archangel is a Russian Orthodox church dedicated to the Archangel Michael.

The Epiphany Cathedral in Yelokhovo

The Epiphany Cathedral at Yelokhovo, Moscow, is the vicarial church of the Moscow Patriarchs.

Andronikov Monastery

Andronikov Monastery of the Saviour is a former monastery on the left bank of the Yauza River in Moscow, consecrated to the Holy Image of…

Danilov Monastery

Danilov Monastery is a walled monastery on the right bank of the Moskva River in Moscow.

Novospassky Monastery

Novospassky Monastery is one of the Russian Orthodox Church fortified monasteries surrounding Moscow from the south-east.

Krutitsy Metochion

Krutitsy Metochion, full name: Krutitsy Patriarchal Metochion is an operating ecclesiastical estate of Russian Orthodox Church, located in…

Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception

The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the Holy Virgin Mary is a neo-Gothic Catholic church at Moscow's center, that serves as the…

Church of our Lady of Kazan

Located in the Kolomenskoye estate, this 17th-century brick church features five blue domes decoration with golden stars. It originally served as the domestic chapel for the royal family at the neighboring wooden palace.

Church of the Ascension

Celebrating the birth of Tsar Ivan IV, this beautiful cathedral overlooks the centre of Moscow from a distance.

Hram Prepodobnogo Sergia Radonezskogo v Krapivnikah

This late 17th-century church in the Tversky District houses the Kiy Cross, a significant reliquary commissioned by Patriarch Nikon containing hundreds of sacred relics.

Cathedral of the Savior

Constructed between 1420 and 1425, this is the oldest surviving stone building in Moscow outside the Kremlin walls. It contains preserved fresco fragments attributed to the master iconographer Andrei Rublev.