St. Nicholas Naval Cathedral

The St. Nicholas' Naval Cathedral (Russian Никольский морской собор ) in Saint Petersburg, named after the patron saint of sailors, was built in 1753-1762 by the architect Savva Tschewakinski, a pupil of Francesco Rastrelli, in the late baroque style. Situated at the Kryukov Canal cathedral is decorated with a blue and white facade and consists of numerous Corinthian columns; she is crowned with five gilded domes. The interior of the church is richly decorated with gold work and varied stucco décor and includes a magnificent iconostasis with pictures from the 18th century.

According to Russian tradition, the church consists of two rooms church, the lower and the upper church. The low and gloomy lower church is the people available daily, while the Wider sweeping, bright upper church is only open on holidays and on special feast days.

The hopeless dreamer from Dostoevsky's love story "White Nights " is taking this tranquil area in his nightly forays through the city.

The Nicholas Cathedral was one of the few churches that was not closed in the Soviet period. In 1967, here the requiem for the poet Anna Akhmatova was held. Originally built as a church for the employees of the Admiralty in seafaring quarter Orthodox church is also the place where the perished at sea seamen thought. So there is in the church memorial plaques for the crews of sunken submarines. Here also the mourning masses for the team declined during the 2000 submarine "K -141 Kursk " were held.