Also open to the public are the churches in Cathedral Square
[The Kremlim, Moscow, Russia]

An elderly man feeding the birds
[Moscow - Russia]

Cathedral of Christ the Saviour
The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, a sprawling Russian Orthodox church on the northwest bank of the Moscow River. This is an exact reproduction of the original 19th-century cathedral, which was dynamited by Stalin in the 1930s to make way for the biggest skyscraper in the world [Moscow, Russia]

Cathedral of the Annunciation on the main square
[The Kremlin - Moscow - Russia]

Cathedral of the Annunciation with its golden onion domes
[The Kremlin - Moscow - Russia]

Cathedral of the Assumption
[The Kremlin - Moscow - Russia]

Cathedral of the Assumption, built 1475-9
[The Kremlin - Moscow - Russia]

Cathedral Square, The Kremlin
[Moscow, Russia]

Church of the Deposition of the Robe
[The Kremlin - Moscow - Russia]

Church of the Deposition of the Robe - Onion shaped domes
[The Kremlin - Moscow - Russia]

Church of the Deposition of the Robe was named after a Byzantine feast day
[The Kremlin - Moscow - Russia]

Church of the Deposition of the Robe with its single dome (front right)
[The Kremlin - Moscow - Russia]

Eye-catching onion shaped domes of the Church of the Deposition of the Robe
[The Kremlin - Moscow - Russia]

Giant escalators going down to metro station
[Moscow - Russia]

In Imperial times, the cathedrals were a setting for state occasions such as coronations, The Kremlin
[Moscow, Russia]