🏛 St Nicholas Naval Cathedral

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A two-storey church with golden domes and a separate four-tier bell tower by the canal.

The cathedral was built in 1753–1762 to a design by Savva Chevakinsky as the regimental church of sailors.
The freestanding 74-metre bell tower was built in 1755–1758.
The lower church is consecrated to St Nicholas the Wonderworker, patron of seafarers, and the upper one to the Epiphany.
At the consecration in 1762 Catherine II ordered the church to be called a cathedral; naval victories were celebrated here.
The cathedral was not closed in Soviet times, and in 1941–1999 it was the cathedral church of the diocese.
On 10 March 1966 the funeral service for Anna Akhmatova was held in the lower church.
In the garden stands the Tsushima obelisk of 1908, in memory of the crew of the battleship ‘Emperor Alexander III’.

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