Russia has numerous “house churches ... Baxter served on a mission for the LDS church in St. Petersburg from 1992 to 1994. “Despite decades of enforced atheism under the USSR, in ...

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St. Isaac's Cathedral was built to be St. Petersburg's main church and the largest cathedral in Russia. To learn more about St. Isaac's Cathedral, click here > The church was completed in 1858.

In St. Petersburg, Russia, surprise is one of their specialties ... With all of these masterpieces of architecture, it is the Church of the Spilt Blood that steals the show.

The Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood is one of the main attractions in St. Petersburg, drawing crowds to its ornately decorated onion domes and the stunning mosaics housed within. Alexander ...

The owner of St. John's Church (Peterburi Jaani kirik), a protestant church in St. Petersburg, sued SA Eesti Kontsert in Russia, which is now requesting about €72,000 from the state for legal fees.

Members of the Jehovah’s Witnesses have 2,500 congregations in Russia. The Russian government has shut down several Witness organizations since the beginning of the year, most recently the church’s ...