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Annunciation Cathedral in the Russian town of Meshchovsk Kaluga region. #71376787
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Annunciation Cathedral in the Russian town of Meshchovsk Kaluga region. Centric brick Church, built in 1832-1851. A large four-column, five-domed building in the Empire style with six-column porticos in the center of the facades. The side chapels of St. Nicholas and St. Simeon Stylites. Freestanding, multi-tiered bell tower, founded in 1854, in 1857, collapsed and was completed only in 1870. Closed in 1932 (according to other data in 1936), was used as a warehouse. Returned to the diocese in 1999, now almost entirely reconstructed.