🏛 Annunciation Cathedral of Shlisselburg

Шлиссельбург, Красная пл.

A mid-18th-century Baroque cathedral by the Staroladozhsky Canal: together with the Church of St Nicholas and the Kazan Chapel it forms the Red Square ensemble.

The stone church was built with funds from Colonel A. Belov and the Sibilev nobles, and consecrated in 1764.
The prototype of the cathedral is the Peter and Paul Cathedral: its spired bell tower rises 52 metres.
In 1935 the cathedral was closed and the bell tower was converted into a parachute jumping tower.
In 1967 the building was given to the Melodiya gramophone record factory.
The cathedral was returned to the Church in 1990, and the spire of the bell tower was restored in 2014–2015.
Prince Dmitry Mikhailovich Golitsyn, who died in 1737, is buried by the Church of St Nicholas.

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Shlisselburg and Oreshek Fortress