St. Vladimir's Cathedral (St. Petersburg)

Coordinates: 59°57′06″N 30°17′43″E / 59.9518°N 30.2954°E / 59.9518; 30.2954 The Prince Vladimir Church (Russian: Князь-Владимирский Собор), formally the Church of St. Prince Vladimir Equal to the Apostles (собор Святого равноапостольного князя Владимира) is a Russian Orthodox Church in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is located on Blokhin Street in the Petrogradsky District of the city across the Malaya Neva from the Spit of Vasilevsky Island, in close proximity to the Sportivnaya metro station.

The first wooden church built in 1708 on the site was dedicated to St. Nicholas. This church was replaced by a masonry church dedicated to the Assumption completed in 1719.

In 1740, a stone church was built next to this Church of the Assumption by order of the Empress Anna. It was designed by Pietro Trezzini. The Late Baroque building was left incomplete when the Empress Elizabeth came to the throne in 1742.

A new project was begun in 1763, this time supervised by Antonio Rinaldi, but that too was left incomplete following a fire in 1772. A chapel was dedicated to the Assumption, but the entire Neoclassical edifice was only completed to Ivan Starov's designs in 1789 and dedicated to St. Vladimir.

In the Soviet period, the church was closed in 1928. From 1938-1941, it served as the cathedral church of the city. From 1941-2001, the Icon of Our Lady of Kazan was located in the church before its transfer to the Kazan Cathedral on Nevsky Prospekt.

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