Best places: Churches in Saint Petersburg, Russia

Founded by Peter the Great, this fortress contains a museum about the early city & a cathedral.

Gleaming mosaics & marble line this richly decorated 1880s church topped with colorful onion domes.

Russian-Byzantine style, 18th-century cathedral with 5 domed towers & a gilded wood interior.

Baroque & neoclassical 18th-century cathedral frequented by Dostoevsky, with 5 domes & belfry views.

18th-century place of worship with a pink facade, a bell tower & ornate interior design.

Unusual pink & white–striped Gothic Revival church founded in 1780 by order of Catherine the Great.

👍👍 The Church of the Holy Righteous Simeon the God-Receiver and Anna the Prophetess is an active temple of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. Architectural monument. Built at the behest of Empress Anna Ioannovna from 1731 to 1734 in the Peter the Great Baroque style using elements...

👍👍 We wandered into this church for an organ and cello concert by Bach Only. I liked the “chamber organ” format itself. In the conservatory, for example, for my taste there is simply “too much” of the organ; you hear a “wave of sounds,” but here you hear every note. About the duet with the cello: I tho...

👍👍 Когда едешь мимо этого места, всегда думаешь о нём как нечто чуждом, непонятном, плохом и т.д. А зря! Прекрасный зал, удобные лестницы. Идеально чисто! Приветливые консержи... Много цветов и здоровая атмосфера. В туалете можно принять душ! Есть кабинки!