Church of the Spilt Blood
by Shirley Mangini
Title
Church of the Spilt Blood
Artist
Shirley Mangini
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Photograph - Photograph
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Church of the Spilled Blood in St. Petersburg, Russia, by Shirley Mangini
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The Church of the Saviour on Spilled Blood is one of St Petersburg�s most impressive churches. With amzing brightly colored rounded domes the church is similar to St Basil�s Cathedral in Moscow. The Church of the Saviour on Spilled Blood is absolutely breathtaking both inside and outside and within its ornately decorated mosiac walls.
This church is also known as the Church on Spilt Blood, its official name is the Church of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Construction of the Church of the Saviour on Spilled Blood began in 1883 by Emperor Alexander III to commemorate his father, Alexander II. Alexander II was assassinated on the site where the church was built in 1881, thus lending the Russian Orthodox cathedral its alternative name referring to spilled blood.
Finished in 1907 during the reign of Nicholas II, The Church of the Saviour on Spilled Blood is an beautiful combination of colors and design. Unlike most of the buildings in St Petersburg, it is not built in a Baroque or neoclassical style, but rather a more medieval Russian one. Inside, the Church Of The Saviour On Spilled Blood is densely adorned with nearly 23,000 square feet of vivid mosaics created by world famous Russian artists such as Mikhail Vrubel and Viktor Vasnetsov.
The Church of the Saviour on Spilled Blood has had a varied history, from its original consecration to being looted and damaged in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution and being used as a storage facility for the deceased during the Second World War and as a potato storage facility afterwards. It was only in the 1970s that the church was reopened and in 1997, after 27 years of renovation, that it was returned to its former glory.
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November 27th, 2013
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