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Cathedral of Christ the Saviour: Then and Now

Built in thanks for the defeat of Napoleon and consecrated in 1883; demolished on Stalin's orders in 1931 and rebuilt in 1995–2000.

Before
Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, before
The original cathedral being blown up in 1931. Unknown, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Today
Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, today
Alvesgaspar, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Key facts

Country todayRussia
StatusRebuilt
Date1883
Nearest city on the mapMoscow (about 1 km)
Location55.745° N, 37.605° E
Map showing Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in 1880Cathedral of Christ the Saviour
Border map for 1880. See Europe in 1880.

Open Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in the interactive map

Who ruled this place

Derived from the border maps; each row runs until the next recorded border change.

PeriodState
500 BC–199Plain-Pottery culture
200–799Unclaimed / no data
800–899Slavonic tribes
900–999Khazars
1000–1099Kievan Rus'
1100–1199Kievan Rus'
1200–1299Other Rus Principalities
1300–1399Grand Duchy of Moscow
1400–1491Blue Horde
1492–1599Grand Duchy of Moscow
1600–1782Tsardom of Muscovy
1783–1919Russian Empire
1920–1929USSR
1930–1937White Russia
1938–1993USSR
1994–todayRussia

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