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The Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul () is a
The Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul () is a Russian Orthodox
The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC; ;), also officially known as the Moscow Patriarchate (), is an autocephaly, autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Orthodox Christian church. It has 194 dioceses inside Russia. The Primate (bishop), p ...
cathedral located in Petergof
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, Russia
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(also known as Peterhof).
Emperor Alexander III approved the design for the cathedral in 1893. It was designed by civil engineer Nikolai Sultanov in the Russian Revival style. It was completed in 1905 but was closed in 1935 and seriously damaged in World War II
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when it was used to house artillery by German troops. The cathedral was eventually restored and services in the space resumed in 1990.
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