What should you know about The Church of our Savior on the Spilt Blood?
The Church of our Savior on the Spilt Blood ( official name of which is Resurrection Cathedral) is an icon of St Petersburg – located right in the heart of the city it invariably attracts everybody’ s attention by its outrageously colorful view.Created in old Russian style ( 1883-1907) the church interiors are as extravagant as the exterior, with glittering stretches of mosaic from floor to the ceiling(70 000 square feet in total ). The right one is below Stone carvings and gilding adorn the walls, the floors are of pink Italian marble, and the remarkable altar is made entirely from semi-precious stones and supported by four jasper columns. The Church of Our Savior on Blood is definitely one of a kind for many reasons. First of all it is the only building in the European capital of Russia not built in a typical European style. As magnificent as it is today, at the time of construction not all the contemporaries were happy with the design of the churc...