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William S. Carpenter Aerospace Photography

Obsessed with anything that flies since 2007.

  2. Travels
  3. St. Petersburg 2014

St. Issac's Cathedral - 7/3

My photos from both inside St. Issac's Cathedral and from the walkway around the base of the dome.
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The Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood as viewed from the top of St. Issac's.
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The Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood as viewed from the top of St. Issac's.

  • One of the cathedral's sets of gigantic wood and bronze doors.
  • The Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood as viewed from the top of St. Issac's.
  • The Palace Square.
  • The Admiralty in the foreground (showing it's restoration work prior to being instated as the headquarters of the Russian Navy next year) and the spire of Peter and Paul Cathedral in the background.
  • The square in front of the cathedral.
  • One of the cathedral's columns was left unrestored to show shell damage sustained during the Siege of Leningrad.
  • One of the many incredible mosaics inside of the cathedral.
  • Looking up into the central dome.
  • A panorama trying to capture as much of the interior as possible.
  • The gilded sculpture over the iconostasis.
  • One of the gilded bronze statues ringing the inside of the dome.
  • The large stained-glass window (a rare feature in a Russian Orthodox church) behind the altar.
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