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  Novospaski monastery  
 

Novo-Spaski Monastery, Cathedral of the Transfiguration of Christ, 1645-49, was designed on the basis of the Uspenski Cathedral in the Kremlin. According to Patriarch Nikon this style best represented the spirit of Orthodoxy.

 
   

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