The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Sign
From the 12th century the wooden Church of Our Saviour of the
Transfiguration-in-Elijah-Street housed the
icon of Our Lady of the Sign. In 1354, in its vicinity, a stone
temple was built for the icon. The remains of the church were
unearthed under the existing Cathedral of Our Lady of the Sign
(1682 ä 88). This huge cathedral is a far cry from the
traditional style of Novgorodian architecture. Its crypt, five
domes, galleries and window and door surrounds are all borrowings
from Muscovite ä or more precisely ä all-Russian architecture. In
1702, the cathedral was frescoed by a group of Kostroma painters
headed by Ivan Bakhmatov.