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CHURCH OF THE DEPOSITION OF THE ROBE
| Description | : | Tucked away behind the mighty Cathedral of the Assumption, stands the diminutive white Church of the Deposition of the Robe, built by craftsmen from the ancient city of Pskov between 1484 and 1486. It was constructed on the site of an earlier church built to commemorate the liberation of Moscow from the Tartars and its name derives from the festival of the deposition of the robe or veil of the Virgin Mary in Constantinople. The Muscovites believed that the robe had saved the city from capture on several occasions and in times of danger it was paraded around the Kremlin walls, just as an icon of the same name was during medieval times. The church served for centuries as the domestic chapel of the Metropolitans and Patriarchs of the Orthodox Church.
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