Saint Sophia Cathedral

Saint Sophia Cathedral is a Russian Orthodox church building, the most established enduring stone working in the city of Vologda. It was built somewhere in the range of 1568 and 1570 under close to home supervision of Tsar Ivan the Terrible in the period when Vologda was the capital of the Oprichnina arrives in Russia, and finished in 1587. The house of prayer is situated on the correct bank of the Vologda River, simply outside the previous post known as the Vologda Kremlin. The church was assigned by the Russian government as an engineering landmark of administrative hugeness.

The ringer tower of the church building is the most elevated development in Vologda, and is 78 meters 256 ft high. The primary wooden chime tower of the house of God was worked toward the finish of the 16th century. The octagonal stone chime tower was worked in 1654-1659. The vaulted vault of the ringer tower in the pseudo-gothic style was worked in 1869 by Vladimir Schildknecht, the main designer of Vologda Governorate, by request of Bishop Palladius. The ringers have appropriate names. The Big Holiday Bell was thrown in 1687, the Water Carrier Bell was thrown in 1643, the Watch Bell was thrown in 1627, the Archangel Bell was thrown in 1689, the Big Swan Bell was thrown in 1689, and the Little Swan Bell was thrown in 1656. The Bell-tower otherwise called a Watch tower.