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Feodorovskaya Icon Cathedral (Saint Petersburg)

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5449. St. Petersburg. Fedorovsky Cathedral
5449. St. Petersburg. Fedorovsky Cathedral

Feodorovskaya Icon Cathedral (also Cathedral of Our Lady Feodorovskaya, Russian: Феодоровский собор) — an Orthodox church in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It belongs to the Central Deanery of the St. Petersburg Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church. The cathedral was built in Commemoration of the Romanov Tercentenary. The reinforced concrete building was designed in the style of the Rostov cathedral churches of the era of the accession of Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich Romanov according to the project of Stepan Krichinsky (Russian: Степа́н Само́йлович Кричи́нский, 1874–1923).

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Feodorovskaya Icon Cathedral (Saint Petersburg)
Миргородская улица, Saint Petersburg

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Фёдоровский собор (Храм Феодоровской иконы Божией Матери)

Миргородская улица 1В
191036 Saint Petersburg (округ Лиговка-Ямская)
Saint Petersburg, Russia
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