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      Tolerant Nevsky: six churches in an hour

      ⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 1.6 km🍽 0📍 6 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      Dutch, Finnish, Swedish, German, Catholic and Armenian churches — all on the stretch from the Moika to Gostiny Dvor. The Nevsky people usually rush past reads as a street of all faiths.

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        🏛 Dutch Church
        Невский пр., 20
        The former church of the Dutch Reformed community: a classicist facade with a portico and a dome right on Nevsky, by the Moika.
        From Admiralteyskaya along Malaya Morskaya to Nevsky — 5 minutes. No. 20 by the Moika: look at the portico with its dome from the opposite side of the avenue.
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        Dutch Church
        © Florstein (Telegram:WikiPhoto.Space) · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The building was built in 1834–1839 to a design by Paul Jacot and faces Nevsky, the Moika and Bolshaya Konyushennaya all at once.
        • The Dutch Reformed community bought the plot at the corner of Nevsky and the Moika in 1733.
        • The parish operated until 1927; afterwards a puppet theatre and the Blok Library worked in the former church.
        • From the 1960s to the 1980s, an automat café, “Minutka”, with pirozhki operated on the ground floor on the Nevsky side.
        • In 1988 the Association of Free Artists arose at the library — it exhibited here until the fire of 2004.
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      3. 2
        🏛 Finnish Church of St Mary
        Большая Конюшенная ул., 8А
        A strict classicist kirche deep in Bolshaya Konyushennaya — the cathedral of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Russia, with an organ and concerts.
        Turn onto Bolshaya Konyushennaya: the church stands deep in a courtyard behind a fence at No. 8. If the doors are open, look inside: a stern white hall seating 2,400.
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        Finnish Church of St Mary
        © MarinaChukanova · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • Empress Anna Ioannovna gave the community the plot in 1734; the first church here was wooden.
        • The stone church was built by Gottlieb Paulsen; it was consecrated on 12 December 1805 in honour of St Mary, namesake of Empress Maria Feodorovna.
        • In 1938 the church was closed and the building handed to the Hermitage.
        • Since 2002 it has been the cathedral of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Russia.
        • In 2010 a neo-Baroque organ by the Finnish firm Martti Porthan was installed, modelled on a Silbermann instrument of 1737.
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        🏛 Swedish Church of St Catherine
        Малая Конюшенная ул., 1–3
        A pseudo-Romanesque kirche at the corner of Malaya Konyushennaya and Shvedsky Lane — the parish where Mannerheim was married.
        Through Shvedsky Lane to Malaya Konyushennaya, No. 1. You can see the whole facade from the corner of the lane.
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        Swedish Church of St Catherine
        © Пономарева Ольга · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Swedish Church of St Catherine
        © O.Bragina · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Swedish Church of St Catherine
        © Error424 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The Swedish community split from the Finnish one in 1745; the stone church of St Catherine was built here in 1767.
        • Parishioners included the Nobel and Lidval families and the jeweller Carl Fabergé.
        • Carl Mannerheim, the future president of Finland, was married in this church.
        • The parish was closed in 1934; the last occupant of the building was a children's sports school.
        • The parish resumed in 1993, and services are held in Russian and Swedish.
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        🏛 Petrikirche — Lutheran Church of Sts Peter and Paul
        Невский пр., 22–24
        Alexander Bryullov's German Lutheran church with two towers deep in Nevsky; in Soviet times there was a swimming pool inside.
        Back on Nevsky: Petrikirche is set back between Nos. 22 and 24. The church hosts organ concerts — the schedule is posted at the entrance.
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        Petrikirche — Lutheran Church of Sts Peter and Paul
        © Foxy9760 · CC0
        • Peter II allotted the plot to the community in 1727, and the first church was consecrated in 1730.
        • The present building was designed by Alexander Bryullov and consecrated on Reformation Day, 31 October 1838.
        • The altar “Crucifixion” was painted by Karl Bryullov; the original is in the Russian Museum, and since 2007 the church has had a reduced copy.
        • In 1958 the building began to be converted into a swimming pool for the Baltic Shipping Company.
        • Behind the church stands the Petrischule school; its building dates from 1762.
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        🏛 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.
        Across Griboedov Canal, Nos. 32–34. The portal is deep like a niche — stand by the steps rather than on the sidewalk.
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        Basilica of St Catherine of Alexandria
        © Никонико962 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • 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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        🏛 Armenian Church of St Catherine
        Невский пр., 40–42
        A white-and-blue church with a dome and portico, set back between buildings 40 and 42 — opposite Gostiny Dvor.
        The last one is in the gap between Nos. 40 and 42, almost opposite Gostiny Dvor. From here it's 2 minutes to Gostiny Dvor metro.
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        Armenian Church of St Catherine
        © Yerevantsi, ретушь nagualdesign · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Armenian Church of St Catherine
        © Skif-Kerch · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The Armenian community took shape in Petersburg in 1710 and prayed in private houses for a long time.
        • Catherine II gave permission to build the church in 1770 at the petition of Ivan Lazarev, who paid for almost all of it.
        • The design of the church and of the buildings 40 and 42 that frame it was by Yury Felten.
        • The site was allotted on the grounds of the former Small Court Stables — in a position “prominent for the capital”, opposite Gostiny Dvor.

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