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A great tour to join while in Moscow is Sergiev Posad, in the suburbs of Moscow ( well, 75kilometers from Moscow ) with appx. 100,000 inhabitants, and is home to the medieval Trinity Monastery ( or Trinity Lavra ) of St. Sergei, which is what Sergiev Posad is famous for. The Trinity Monastery is the Russian Orthodox equivalent to the Vatican in Rome. A Lavra is the highest rank of an Orthodox monastery and is one of only four in all of Russia. The Trinity Monastery has a complicted amount of buildings that "rivals" that of the Kremlin.

The Monastery has been named after St. Sergii of Radonezh, a monk from the 14th century from Rostov, who attracted a number of followers to the remote forests around Moscow and the wooden Monastery by Sergii and the Tartars following his death, started construction of the Trinity Cathedral in 1422. The imposing white stoned building with differently sloped outer walls and the gold dome, became the centre of attention for other Cathedrals around in Russia thereafter, interior among them a silver shrines. A long history of events followed for the Cathedral that along with times got a  square white wall built around it with a slender, blue and gold domed bell-tower, which also acted as a look out post.