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Church of the Dormition of the Mother of God (Saint Petersburg)

Vasileostrovsky District, Russia · built 1895

The Church of the Dormition of the Mother of God is a Russian Orthodox Church building in Saint Petersburg. Its construction started in 1894 when monks from the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra decided to expand the monastic branch of the monastery. Work on the construction lasted six years, and the church was designed in the neo-Byzantine style by Vasily Kosyakov.

Church data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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