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Places of Worship Collection

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Arguably the most popular church in SPb c1903.	The Resurrection Church c1905	aka The Church on Spilled Blood used in 1912	Khram Spasa na Krovi seen from the other side. Used 1913
The Church of the Resurrection around 1914	Rear of Resurrection church c1911	St Isaac's Cathedral used during 1910	St Isaac's Cathedral Petrograd c1915
St Isaac's Cathedral c1915	The largest church in the city c1900	St Isaac's Cathedral between the German Embassy & the Astoria	St Isaac's Cathedral in the snow of 1902
St Isaacs and the Bronze Horseman c1912	Preparing to celebrate the 200 year Jubilee 1903.	Isaakievsky Sobor around 1906	St Isaac's Cathedral seen from the Neva c1902
Novodivichy Convent on a card used in 1912	Another view of the Novodivichy Convent c1909	Novodivichy Convent 1903	The long destroyed Mironii Church c1902
Sts Simeon & Anna Church c1913	Epiphany Church on Goutuevsky Island c1902	Epiphany (Bogoyavlensky) Church c1907	The Church of St Miron by the Obvodny Canal 1903
The St. Nicholas and Bogoyavlensky Cathedral 1902	Nikolsky Sobor (the Sailor's cathedral) 1903	St Nicholas Cathedral c1903	St Nicholas Navy Cathedral mailed in 1915
Cathedral of St Sérge (Liteiny pr. destroyed) - c1900	Blagoveshchensky Sobor mailed during 1909	Smolny Monastery on a card used 1904	Smolny Monastery on a card used in 1911
Church of Annonciation (razed) 1901	Blagoveshchensky Sobor c1909	Christ the Saviour Church c1910	Christ the Saviour (marine) Ch. (English Quay) c1910
The razed Ascension Church c1899	Holy Ascension Church c1908	Intercession Church of St Vierge c1912 (destroyed 1930s)	St Vierge Intercession Church c1900
The Dutch Reform Church c1907	St Peter's Lutheran Church c1902	St Catherine's Catholic Church c1902	St Catherine's Catholic Church c1902
St Petersburg Synagogue c1905	St Peter's Lutheran Church photocard c1910	St Catherine's Catholic Church 1903	St Catherine's Catholic Church c1910
Petchorsky Convent Church of Kiev mailed in 1908	Church of the Assumption of the Virgin - c1912	Petchorsky Convent Church mailed in 1905	Church of Assumption of the Virgin c1911
The Grand Choral Synagogue c1910	Sts Cosmas and Damian Church from photo of 1899 (destroyed)	Saint Petersburg Mosque 1913	St Petersburg Mosque c1914
St Petersburg Synagogue around 1910	The Ioannovsky (St. John) Monastery 1901	Monastery Saint-Jean c1912	St John Convent (reki Karpovki) mailed 1904
Another of SPb's Synagogue c1910	German Reform Church (bol Morskaya, 58) - c1909	St Peter's Reform Church mailed 1912	German Reform church of St Peter - 1902

The German Reform Church 1902	St Peters Reform Church 1904	The German Reform Church 1903	Bolshoy Morskaya Ulitsa around 1909
How the Soviets transformed the Reform church! Seen here in 2008	St Peters Reform Church card mailed in 1910	Christ the Savior Chapel (destroyed in 1929) 1912	Christ the Savior Chapel c1900
Another Annonciation Church (Staraya Derevnya) - used 1906	Temporary chapel on site of Alex II's assassination 1880s	Trinity Cathedral & the Column of Glory 1906	The Troitsky Sobor mailed in 1907
The Trinity Cathedral c1914	Trinity Cathedral & Monument of Glory 1902	Trinity Cathedral of Izmailovsky Life-Guards Regiment 1911	Trinity Cathedral used in 1913
Dutch Reform Church (Nevsky pr, 20) - c1911	St Theodore's Sobor (Poltavskaya ul.) - 1913	Cathedral of the Icon of Our Lady Feodorovskaya - 1913	Kazan Cathedral front c1913
Kazan Cathedral 1900	Kazansky Sobor used 1901	Kazan Cathedral and the Catherine Canal c1911	On the western steps of Kazan Cathedral around 1913
The front of Kazan Cathedral used in 1915	Kazansky Sobor c1916	Kazan Cathedral c1906	Interior of Kazan Cathedral 1900
Vladimirskaya Church 1903	Our Lady of Vladimir Church c1903	Our Lady of Vladimir Church at beginning of 20th Century	Vladimirskaya Church c1911 became a cathedral in 2000
Kronstadt Marine Cathedral used 1910	Kronstadt Lutheran Church (+ Reform church) - c1903	Lutheran & Reform churches at Kronstadt c1903	The now destroyed Andreyievsky Sobor c1902
Kronstadt Navy Cathedral c1913	St Nicholas Navy Cathedral Kronstadt - c1913	Cathedral of St Vladimir at Cronstadt used in 1906	Vladimirsky Cathedral Cronstadt 1902
Ekaterinsky Sobor in Tsarshoe Selo c1906	Cathedral of St Peter & St Paul Peterhof c1914	Church of the Great Palace Peterhof c1900	The church wing of the Great Palace at Peterhof c1905
Church of the Cuirassiers at Tsarskoe Selo c1904	Sts Peter & Paul Cathedral at Peterhof - used in 1911	Sts Peter & Paul Cathedral at Peterhof - used in 1914	St.Michael Lutheran Church used in 1905
Alexander II's chapel at the Summer Garden 1903	Alexander II's chapel of St Alexander Nevsky c1909	Chapel of St Alexander Nevsky in Summer Garden railings 1909	Scene of failed assassination attempt on Alex II c1910
Preobrajensky (Transfiguration) Cathedral c1904	Another of Spaso-Preobrazhensky Sobor - c1910	and another, here called the Church of all Guards c1912	Cathedral of Transfiguration of God and the Guards c1904
Peter the Great Lachta Chapel c1903	Convent of St Serge Strelna - c1901	Archangel Michaila Cathedral Oranienbaum - c1903	St Andrews Cathedral Basil Island - c1910
St Prince Vladimir Cathedral (ul Blokhina, 26) - c1915	St Alexander Nevsky Church (Novocherkassky Pr.2) - 1902	Alex Nevsky Church - sent 1904 (Destroyed early 1930s)	Cathedral of St. André sent 1905
Kronstadt Port Chapel c1906	Sts Peter & Paul Cathedral 1902	Cathedral of Sts Peter & Paul c1909	Cathedral of Sts Peter & Paul mailed 1910
St Catherine's Armenian Church at Nevsky 40-42 c1900	Assumption Church on Sennaya Square around 1903	Assumption Church Sadovaya - c1910	Trinity Church on Kamennoostrovsky Pr c1910
Mater Delorosa [Mother of Sorrows] Church 1903	St Catherine Great Martyr Ch. mailed in 1905	Church of St Vierge (Bol prospekt V. O.) c1902	Catherine of Alexandria Church (Nevsky 32-34) used 1908
Apparation of Virgin Church c1902	Church of the Sign (Znamenskaya) used 1902	Znamenskaya Church & Square mailed 1913	Znamenskaya around 1897
Znamenskaya Church c1901	Church of Birth of Jesus Christ c1904 (destroyed 1930s)	Lesnensky Convent Church (Chernaya Rechka) c1904	St Alexander Nevsky Church at Lisiy Nos - c1905
Holy Trinity Cathedral inside Alexander Nevsky Lavra c1900	The Holy Trinity Cathedral inside Nevsky Lavra - 1906	St Theodore church in the Nevsky Lavra - 1903	The Holy Trinity Cathedral Nevsky Lavra c1916
Chapel on the Nicholas Bridge 1902	Church of Our Lady of the Sign Tsarskoe Selo 1902	Cherkov Znameniyar T-Selo c1906	Belfry of St Nicholas Cathedral mailed 1917
The Priory Palace Gatchina c1906	A long gone church on Nicolaievskaya ulitsa c1912	Resurrection of Christ (Temperance Church) - c1910	Gatchina Cathedral Street mailed in 1914
Petropavlovskaya Sobor (inside the fortress) c1908	Vvedenskaya church (Zagorodny pr.) used in 1902	St. Catherine Church (1a Bolshoi pr. Basil Is.) 1902	Greek Church of St Dmitry sent during 1909
Swedish church of St Catherine used 1905	Church of the Holy Virgin Gatchina - c1909	St Paul (Pavel) Cathedral Gatchina - 1904	Estonian church of St John the Baptist in 1916
Swedish church of St Catherine c1903	Old Panovsky church Ligovo - sent 1917	Pargolovo church sent during 1904	Estonian church of St John (Dekabristov ul, 54) - c1909

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