Cathedral of Christ the Saviour - Храм Христа Спасителя

[BayAreaOrBust]

Thanks for the upload, that's a beautiful church

[alanheath]

@BayAreaOrBust From the outside it is quite outstanding. But it is very new - less than 20 years old!

[BayAreaOrBust]

@alanheath And it owuld've been something historic if the goddamn Soviets didn't dynamite it eighty years ago.

[alanheath]

@BayAreaOrBust The original dated to the beginning of the eighteenth century as I recall. They also wanted to knock down St. Basil's but it was allegedly Stalin who stopped them.

One of the metro stations has benches from the original cathedral.

[BayAreaOrBust]

@alanheath Still, it's a bit sad that they tore down the origional one