The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Moscow, Russia. / Maxim Apryatin via Shutterstock.Rome Newsroom, Mar 24, 2022 / 09:15 am (CNA).More than 15 years before Our Lady of Fatima asked for the consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, construction began in Moscow on a cathedral dedicated to the Immaculate Conception. It was to be the largest Catholic cathedral in Russia.The neo-Gothic cathedral was built before the Russian Revolution with a design by Foma Bogdanovich-Dvorzhetsky, an architect who had trained at the Imperial Academy of the Arts inaugurated by Catherine the Great.At the time, Moscow s Catholic minority population numbered more than 30,000, which exceeded the capacity of the city s two existing Catholic churches.Construction began in 1901 and lasted for 10 years until the church was consecrated on December 21, 1911, in the name of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary.Father Mikhail Tsakul was the cathedral s first rector. He ca.
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