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  St. Petersburg - St. Isaac's Cathedral  
Photo of St. Isaac's Cathedral, St. Petersburg
St. Isaac's Cathedral

St. Petersburg's largest cathedral, and one of the world's largest, was comissioned by Tsar Alexander I and designed by Auguste de Montferrand in 1818.  It overlooks St. Isaac's Square.

Photo of St. Isaac's Square Photo of statue of Nicholas I, St. Isaac's Square Photo of south door panel, St. Isaac's Cathedral
Photo of south door panel, St. Isaac's Cathedral Photo of door panel, St. Isaac's Cathedral Photo of interior door, St. Isaac's Cathedral
Photo of interior, St. Isaac's Cathedral Photo of interior, St. Isaac's Cathedral Photo of interior detail, St. Isaac's Cathedral
Photo of silver dove hanging in cupola, St. Isaac's Cathedral Photo of ceiling and cupola, St. Isaac's Cathedral Photo of ceiling and cupola, St. Isaac's Cathedral
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Photo of Iconostasis, St. Isaac's Cathedral Photo of lower Iconostasis, St. Isaac's Cathedral Photo of Iconostasis stained glass window, St. Isaac's Cathedral
Photo of upper of iconostasis, St. Isaac's Cathedral Photo of Pyotr Klodt's gilded sculpture, Christ in Majesty (1859), on Iconostasis, St. Isaac's Cathedral Photo of mosaic of St. Issac holding plan for his cathedral, St. Isaac's Cathedral