The St. Basil’s Cathedral Google Logo

By Barry Schwartz

Published: July 12, 2011 at 9:47 am

450th Anniversary Of St

Today is the 450th Anniversary of the St. Basil’s Cathedral, which had its groundbreaking in 1555 and was officially completed on July 12, 1561. It is a Russian Orthodox church erected on the Red Square in Moscow. The building looks like no other building in Russia and has 9 domes and 2 spires. Their official web site is at saintbasil.ru.

To commemorate the St. Basil’s Cathedral, Google has a special Google logo for its 450 anniversary.

Here is a real picture of it from Wikipedia:

Saint Basil Moscow Crop

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Barry Schwartz

Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.

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