Cathedral of 12 Apostles

Cathedral of 12 Apostles in the Moscow Kremlin. View from the south.
Photo by N.I.Zharkikh, September 6, 1976.

This cathedral and three-storey patriarchal palace, which adjoined it on the west, built in 1653 – 1655's with the order of Patriarch Nikon in place of older metropolitan-patriarchal chambers. The cathedral served as a patriarch's house church.