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Tserkov' Bogoyavleniya, now Patriarshii
Bogoyavlenskii sobor, chto v Yelokhove, The Patriarchal Cathedral of the
Manifestation of Christ, (Epiphany) Cathedral, in Yelokovski quarter, dating
from 1835-45, on Spartakovski street, formerly Yelokhovski street, in northeast
Moscow well outside the ring of the former Zemli gorod walls. This became the
Patriarch's main cathedral before World war II when the Church was thrown out
of the Kremlin. This contains the highly revered Icon of Our Lady of Tikhvin
and the Icon of Our Lady of Kazan and the shrine of Metropolitan Alexis. It
also has to tomb of St Nicholas the wonderworker. It has five domes in an
eclectic style. There was a wooden church here from 1694. The first stone
church with Epiphany chapel was built in 1717 by Tsarevna Praskovie Ivanovna
with Peter's help. In 1790-92 a refectory with chapels and belltower was built
but by the early 19th century only the lower part of the belltower remained.
The entire complex was rebuilt and renovated in 1835-45 by architect Ye. D.
Turin. A dome and attic were added to the refectory in 1889 by P. P Zikov.
There are chapels to the Virgin Mother and St Nicholas the wonderworker. The
name,Yelokhove, comes from the village Yela that in old Russian meant an alder
grove. In the second half of the 15th century in Yela was a church of the
Vladimir Mother of God in which parish Basil the Blessed was born in 1468 .
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