Dormition Cathedral

Dormition Cathedral
Building information
Introduced in	Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition
Type	Civilian
Use	Grants victory if defended for 200 years
Construction
Wood	1,000
Gold	1,000
Stone	1,000
Build time	3,500 seconds
Statistics
Size	5×5 tiles
Hit points	4800
Melee armor	3
Pierce armor	10
Armor classes	Building Wonder
Line of Sight	8

The Dormition Cathedral is an unconstructable building in Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition. The Dormition Cathedral has exactly the same stats and size as a Wonder. It is available in the Scenario Editor and some campaign scenarios.

Appearances

Ivaylo

• An Unlikely Alliance: It is used to represent the Tsarevets Fortress inside Tarnovo.

Algirdas and Kestutis

• A Worthy Opponent: The Dormition Cathedral is part of the Kremlin Fortress inside Moscow.

Victors and Vanquished

• Mstislav: The Dormition Cathedrals are present in the cities of Kyiv and Vladimir.

Trivia

• The prototype of the Cathedral's model is the Cathedral of Saint Demetrius in Vladimir, Russia, which was commissioned by Grand Prince of Vladimir Andrei Bogolyubsky and completed in 1160.
  • Possibly in the Algirdas and Kestutis campaign, this cathedral was confused with the Dormition Cathedral in Moscow, which was commissioned by Ivan III of Russia three centuries later and has slight differences in appearance (e.g. the proportions of domes in relation to the main building), although its architecture was actually inspired by the ancient Vladimir church. This could also be intentional, as it is a similar structure in name and design.
• Since the Definitive Edition changed the Britons' Wonder from the Aachen Cathedral to the more accurate Chichester Cathedral, it is possible that the Dormition Cathedral (completed 1160) was originally created as a replacement Wonder for the Slavs, whose current Wonder, Kizhi Pogost (completed 1714), is anachronistic for Age of Empires II's mostly Medieval setting.
• Originally, the Cathedral of Saint Demetrius was a basis for the new Monastery sprite in the fan-made "Russian mod", which replaces the Aztecs and Maya with Russian and Ukrainian factions sharing a building style. This style was reused by the Slavs in the "Forgotten Empires" mod that preceded the development of Age of Empires II HD: The Forgotten.

Gallery

Dormition Cathedral in-game

The Slavic Monastery in the "Forgotten Empires" mod

The Dormition Cathedral as part of the Moscow Kremlin as seen in A Worthy Opponent

Appearance in the city of Tarnovo seen in An Unlikely Alliance

The Dormition Cathedral as the Slavic Wonder in a mod