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Kazan Cathedral (Cathedral of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God) - one of the largest churches in St. Petersburg, made in the style of Russian classicism. It was built on Nevsky Prospekt in 1801-1811 by architect A. N. Voronikhin for keeping the honorable list of the miraculous icon of the Mother of God of Kazan. After the Patriotic War of 1812 acquired the value of a monument to Russian military glory. In 1813, the general MI Kutuzov was buried here and the keys to the taken cities and other military trophies were placed.
In 1932 it was turned into the Museum of the History of Religion and Atheism, since 1991 it has been a functioning temple that coexisted for several years with the museum exposition. Since 2000 - the cathedral of the St. Petersburg diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church. The abbot is Archpriest Pavel Krasnozvetov.
The cathedral gave the name Kazan Street, Kazan Island in the Neva Delta and Kazan Bridge at the intersection of Nevsky Prospekt and the Griboedov Canal.