Introduction to the Church of Our Lady of the Vestments: The Church of the Our Lady of the Vestments (Mariä-Gewandniederlegungs-Kirche) is an Orthodox church built in 1484 by craftsmen in Pskov. It may be of the same origin as the adjacent Cathedral of the Annunciation. The hand of the batch craftsman.
This church was built on the site of a church built by Jonah of Moscow in 1451. It is said that in the 5th century, the vestments of the Virgin were sent from Palestine to Constantinople to protect the city from conquest. There are also legends. During the Rus-Byzantine War in 860, the Patriarch threw the Virgin's vestments into the sea, causing a storm that destroyed the invading Rus' fleet.

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