The Saint Basil's Cathedral in Moscow, it was built by order of Ivan the Terrible to commemorate the capture of Astrakhan and Kazan. Known as the "Church of the Trinity," the initial building consisted of a total of eight separate churches that were organized around one ninth. In 1588 a tenth church It was raised in order to venerate a local saint named Vasili (Basil).
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries it was considered as an earthly image of a Jerusalem heavenly. The building was designed in the form of bonfire flames that rise up into the sky. There is no other building like it in Russian architecture. During the time of the Soviet Union, the cathedral was the victim of atheistic attacks. It was confiscated from the Russian Orthodox community and used as a part of the State Museum of History from 1928.
Today, it has become the most important part of the Red Square and a World Heritage Site since 1990. The name of «Red Square» comes from the Russian word «Krasnaya", Which means" red "and" beautiful ". It was used for the first time to designate the Cathedral of Saint Basil, and then the name extended to the entire square.
Moscow It is not the only Russian city that has this type of “Red Squares”. There are several cities in Russia in which the main squares are also called “Reds”. The architecture of the building and the multitude of colors that form it, make the church a monument universally valuable, unique and without comparison.
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