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      🏛 Church of “Joy of All Who Sorrow” on Shpalernaya

      пр. Чернышевского, 3 (угол Шпалерной ул.)

      Luigi Rusca's Empire-style rotunda church at the corner of Shpalernaya: inside, 24 columns support the dome.

      Church of “Joy of All Who Sorrow” on Shpalernaya
      © Daria Funtova · CC BY-SA 3.0
      Church of “Joy of All Who Sorrow” on Shpalernaya
      © Anastasiya Lvova · CC BY-SA 4.0
      • The church was built by Luigi Rusca in 1817–1818; inside it is a rotunda whose dome is held up by 24 Ionic columns.
      • From 1711 the house church of Tsarevna Natalya Alexeyevna stood on this site, at her palace.
      • Until 1931 the miraculous icon “Joy of All Who Sorrow” was kept here; since 1937 it has been in the Transfiguration Cathedral.
      • The church was closed in 1932; from 1970 it housed a branch of the monuments protection society; services returned in 1993.

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