Cathedral of St Peter and St Paul in Peterhof

The red-brick cathedral with tented roofs in the Russian Revival style was built between 1895 and 1905 to a design by Nikolai Sultanov on the shore of Olgin Pond. It rises about seventy metres and held roughly eight hundred worshippers, and a staircase climbs to the belfry tier, from where Peterhof and the gulf come into view. The cathedral was closed in 1938 and adapted as a warehouse, returned to the church in 1989 and restored by the middle of the 1990s.

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