Issac's Cathedral in St Petersburg

        Saint Isaac's Cathedral was built  in St Petersburg. It is dedicated to Saint Isaac of Dalmatia, a patron saint of Peter the Great who had been born on the feast day of that saint. The Cathedral was constructed on the orders of  Alexander I between the years of 1818 to 1858 to replace an earlier structure. Under the Soviet government, religious trappings were removed and it became the Museum of Scientific Atheism.  With the fall of communism, the museum was removed and regular worship was resumed in the cathedral, although mainly in the left-hand side chapel. The main body of the cathedral is only used for services on feast days.

        The cathedral is constructed in the late neoclassical architectural style and has it’s exterior faced with grey and pink stone. It has a total of 112 red monolithic Corinthian granite columns, 48 at ground level. The main part of cathedral rises over 100 metres and is plated with gold.During World War II,this part was painted over in grey to avoid attraction attention from enemy aircraft.Main part was decorated with statues of angels.