Resurrection Gate
The Resurrection Gate ( Russian Воскресенские ворота / Woskresenskije worota ) is a centrally located Moscow city gate. It got its name from an icon that represented the resurrection of Christ . The original from 1680 was removed in 1931, and a structural reconstruction was carried out between 1995 and 1996 .
The Resurrection Gate, one of the traditional landmarks of downtown Moscow, was demolished in 1931 because it obstructed the passage of larger military vehicles to Red Square . This was particularly important in view of the annual military parades held on the anniversary of the October Revolution . In the course of the tendency to regain traditional heritage destroyed by Stalinism , a largely true-to-original copy of the gate was built in 1995–1996. A brass star embedded in the ground in front of the gate marks “kilometer zero” in the Russian distance tables relating to Moscow.
Web links
- Detailed information about the Resurrection Gate on EU-ASIEN.DE ( Memento from April 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (German)
Coordinates: 55 ° 45 ′ 20.3 ″ N , 37 ° 37 ′ 5 ″ E