St. Michael's Cathedral (Izhevsk)

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Saint Michael's Cathedral (Собор святого Архистратига Михаила) in

Its Russian Revival design belongs to Ivan Charushin, a little-known 19th-century architect from Vyatka. The red-brick church is capped with a tent-like roof that rises to a height of 67 metres. It is encircled by several massive chapels with gilded bulbous domes and slender candle-like belfries. The porches have sharply pitched roofs in the manner of the Muscovite churches of the 17th century.

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The cathedral was erected between 1897 and 1915, only to be demolished by the Soviets in 1937.[1] It was rebuilt to Charushin's original designs in 2004–2007.

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External links

• Media related to Saint Michael the Archangel Church (Izhevsk) at Wikimedia Commons