🏛 Basilica of St Catherine of Alexandria

Невский пр., 32–34

The city's oldest working Catholic church: a deep arched portal and a dome at the back of a small square on Nevsky.

The parish was founded in 1716; the church was begun by Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe and finished by Antonio Rinaldi — by 1782.
It is the only Catholic church in Russia with the honorary title of minor basilica.
In 1798 the last king of Poland, Stanisław August Poniatowski, was buried here; later his remains were moved.
In 1813 the church received the burial of General Jean Moreau, mortally wounded at Dresden beside Alexander I.
Auguste de Montferrand, builder of St Isaac's Cathedral, was a parishioner.

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