🏛 Gothic Chapel

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A small Neo-Gothic church with pointed spires in Alexandria Park.

The Church of Alexander Nevsky was built to a design by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, and Nicholas I chose the site himself.
It was laid down on 24 May 1831 and consecrated on 3 July 1834; services were held here only in summer, as it was the royal family's private church.
About a thousand cast-iron decorative details were cast in 1832 at the Alexandrovsky Plant.
At the corners stand twenty-metre towers with cast-iron spires and gilded crosses.
On 26–27 September 2006 the coffin of Empress Maria Feodorovna, brought from Denmark for reburial, stood here.
The chapel before restoration can be seen in the 1967 film Zhenya, Zhenechka and Katyusha.

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