3D print Saint Basil's Cathedral
A free, printable 3D model of Saint Basil's Cathedral, the onion-domed church on Red Square in Moscow, with the surrounding square and buildings built from real map data in your browser.
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- Real height
- 48 m
- On a 160 mm print
- 15 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
48 m of Saint Basil's Cathedral, 15 mm on your shelf
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
- The onion domes
The domes are the most detailed shapes on this model, each with its own outline. Print friendly adapts their tips at print scale, or use Full detail with a larger print so every dome keeps its shape.
- One piece with the ground
Saint Basil's Cathedral is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. Saint Basil's Cathedral takes the building color.
- File format
You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About Saint Basil's Cathedral
Saint Basil's Cathedral, in the historic heart of Moscow, is a Russian Orthodox church standing on Red Square, and one of the country's most popular cultural symbols. Officially it is Pokrovsky Cathedral, dedicated to the Intercession of the Theotokos, and it serves as a museum. Construction ran from 1555 to 1561 at the order of Ivan the Terrible, to mark the capture of Kazan and Astrakhan, and the building was finished with its colors in 1683. Nine onion domes crown it, each one standing for a different church, and the clustered shapes have been compared to a bonfire's flame.
The site had long been a busy marketplace between the Kremlin's gate and the settlement outside its walls, with a white stone Trinity Church at its center. Ivan marked each victory in the Russo-Kazan War with a wooden memorial church beside Trinity, and by the time the Astrakhan campaign ended, Trinity stood among seven wooden churches. In 1555 he ordered a stone cathedral there; the plan had eight chapels around one central ninth, given to the Intercession. A tenth chapel went up in 1588 over the grave of Vasily, the venerated local saint known as Basil the Fool for Christ, who died in 1552.
Who designed it is unknown. Tradition names two architects, Barma and Postnik, and the state register of cultural heritage lists Barma and Postnik Yakovlev, though some researchers think the two names belong to one man. The story that Ivan had the architect blinded is widely doubted, since Postnik Yakovlev kept working into the 1560s. Since 1928 the cathedral has been run as part of the State Historical Museum, and since 1990 it has formed part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site covering the Kremlin and Red Square.
About this model
Saint Basil's Cathedral is one of more than 4,400 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
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