Church

Church of the Saviour on Spilled Blood

The Church of the Resurrection of Christ was built in 1907 on the bank of the Catherine Canal in St Petersburg, where Tsar Alexander II had been fatally wounded in 1881. The building was popularly kn...

Minor Chapel of the Winter Palace

The Chapel of the Presentation in the Temple was located in Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli ’s Winter Palace (1754–62). Consecrated in January 1768, the interior was badly damaged in the fire (1837). ...

St Nicholas Chapel on the Annunciation Bridge

Built by Heinrich Stackenschneider on the northern pier of the Annunciation Bridge (1853). Assigned to St Andrew’s Cathedral on Vasilyevsky Island. Contained a mosaic image of St Nicholas created by ...

St Catherine’s Church

Empress Anna Ioannovna signed a decree awarding a plot of land for the construction of a church to the Roman Catholic community in St Petersburg (14 September 1738). Pietro Antonio Trezzini designed ...

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 bui...

Dutch Church

Plot of land on the corner of the River Moika and Nevsky Prospekt with the mansion of Jean-Baptiste-Alexandre Le Blond was awarded to the Dutch Reformed Church (1730). A church with a house for the p...

Church of the Saviour Not Made By Human Hands

The Church of the Saviour Not Made By Human Hands was the court stables church. Originally a wooden church built by Nicolaus Friedrich Harbel (1720–23), it was transferred to the new stone building o...

Church of St Panteleimonos

A wooden Chapel of St Panteleimonos the Healer and Great Martyr was built at the Particular Shipyard (1718) to celebrate the Russian naval victories over Sweden at the Battle of Hangö (1714) and Batt...

Church of Our Lady of Vladimir

Built by Pietro Antonio Trezzini on a “trading square” (1761–69) on the site of the wooden church of the same name (1747). Consisted of two chapels – an upper Chapel of Our Lady of Vladimir and a low...

Church of the Holy Sign

Built by Fyodor Demertsov on Holy Sign (Znamenskaya) Square (1794–1804). Empress Elizabeth Petrovna issued a decree on the construction of a parish church “opposite the Jäger Courtyard, at the Ligov ...

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