Moscow's Dormition Cathedral built in stone
1331
Ivan Kalita commissioned a modest stone church on Kremlin Hill to replace a wooden predecessor. It was Moscow's first stone building and a statement of intent: the Moneybag prince meant his city to become the religious as well as fiscal center of Russian Orthodoxy. The metropolitan would move his seat here shortly.
In context
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.