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Lutheran Church of St Peter and St Paul
The German Evangelical Lutheran congregation is one of the oldest in St Petersburg. Awarded a plot of land on Nevsky Prospekt by Peter II (December 1727). A small stone church and two houses were built there (1728–30). Construction was headed by Count Burkhard Christoph von Münnich. Alexander Brullov designed a new building in the Romanesque Revival style with two turrets (1833–38). Marble statues of St Peter and St Paul were sculpted by Agostino Triscorni. Reconstructed by Maximilian von Messmacher (1895–97).
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