Editing Saint Basil's Cathedral (section)

==== 1947 to present ====
[[File:Stamp of USSR 1174.jpg|thumb|upright|St Basil's on a 1947 postage stamp marking the renovation]]
In the first years after [[World War II]], renovators restored the historical ground-floor arcades and pillars that supported the first-floor platform, cleared up vaulted and caissoned ceilings in the galleries, and removed "unhistoric" 19th-century oil paint murals inside the churches.<ref name=K402/> Another round of repairs, led by Nikolay Sobolev in 1954–1955, restored original paint imitating brickwork, and allowed restorers to dig inside old masonry, revealing the wooden frame inside it.<ref name=K402/> In the 1960s, the tin roofing of the domes were replaced with copper.<ref name=OFS>{{cite web | url=http://www.shm.ru/pokrovskiy.html | title=Pokrovsky Cathedral (in Russian) | publisher=[[State Historical Museum]], official site | access-date=28 September 2009 | language=ru | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100216223151/http://www.shm.ru/pokrovskiy.html | archive-date=16 February 2010 | df=dmy-all }}</ref>

The last round of renovation was completed in September 2008 with the opening of the restored sanctuary of St. Alexander Svirsky.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.rian.ru/culture/20080925/151581501.html | title=Pridel Hrama Vasilia Blazhennogo otkryvaetsa posle restavratsii (Придел Храма Василия Блаженного открывается после реставрации) | publisher=[[RIA Novosti]] | language=ru |date=25 September 2008}}</ref> The building is still partly in use today as a museum and, since 1991, is occasionally used for services by the Russian Orthodox Church. Since 1997, Orthodox Christian services have been held regularly. Nowadays, every Sunday at Saint Basil's church, there is a [[divine liturgy]] at 10{{nbsp}}a.m. with an [[Akathist]] to Saint Basil.<ref>https://www.efe.com/efe/english/life/small-russian-church-from-st-basil-complex-re-opens-after-renovations/50000263-3822413 Reopen for services</ref><ref name="patriarchia.ru"/>