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Kazan Cathedral
Kazan Cathedral (2, Nevsky Prospekt, Kazanskaya Square St. Petersburg) – built during the early 1800s, this cathedral was modeled after Basilica of St. Peter’s in Rome and was intended to be the country’s main Orthodox Church. After the Russians successfully defeated Napoleon, it became a monument to that victory. Like other churches, the Soviet authorities stopped this cathedral from holding religious services in 1929 (housing at one point a museum dedicated to atheism). Religious services resumed some time after the fall of Communism.