Thirty five miles northeast of Moscow, now the city of Sergiev Posad. Cathedral of Holy Trinity-St Sergius Monastery (Church of Hol Spirit Cathedral of Dormition) founded in the fourteenth century by St Sergius of Radonezh. The first wooden church of the Holy Trinity was consecrated in the 1340s, and later it continued to grow and strengthen, by 1917 it had been the largest monastery in Russia.
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