Annunciation Cathedral

Look closely at the white stone walls, then find the lookout behind the cathedral. Across the Kazanka you can see a very different part of the city.

Getting there

Kul Sharif Mosque › Sheynkmana Passage › Government Offices › Cathedral garden

Return to Sheynkmana Passage and continue away from Spasskaya Tower alongside the former Government Offices. At the end of the long façade on your right, turn towards the garden and the white cathedral with the golden dome.

At entrance three of the Government Offices, Tatar by Tubatay serves broth with an echpochmak, a triangular savoury pie.

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History

A small wooden church stood here in 1552. Within ten years the Pskov masters Postnik Yakovlev and Ivan Shiryay had built a white stone cathedral. Inside its later additions, the original six-pier core survives. Fires and rebuilding changed its outline. The garden next door once held a five-storey bell tower around fifty metres high, dismantled in Soviet times. The cathedral was reconsecrated in July 2005 after years of restoration. Its historic lower floor now houses a museum.

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