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The Cathedral of Vasily the Blessed Russian: собо́р Васи́лия Блаже́нного, Sobor Vasiliya Blazhennogo, commonly known as Saint Basil`s Cathedral, is a church in Red Square in Moscow, Russia and is one of the most recognizable symbols of the country. The building, now a museum, is officially known as the Cathedral of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos on the Moat Собо́р Покрова́ Пресвято́й Богоро́дицы, что на Рву, Sobor Pokrova Presvyatoy Bogoroditsy, chto na Rvu or Pokrovsky Cathedral Покро́вский собо́р. It was built from 1555 to 1561 on orders from Ivan the Terrible and commemorates the capture of Kazan and Astrakhan. It was the city`s tallest building until the completion of the Ivan the Great Bell Tower in 1600.