The height of St. Isaac's Cathedral is 101.5 m, the diameter of the dome is 21.8 m. The area of the temple is about 4,000 sq. m. St. Isaac's Cathedral can accommodate 12 thousand people. The colonnade of St. Isaac's Cathedral is the best observation platform in St. Petersburg. You can climb to the top of the colonnade by an internal staircase, overcoming 211 steps, from where a magnificent panorama of the central part of the city opens. The official name is the Cathedral of St. Isaac of Dalmatia.
The history of the museum-monument begins in 1928, when the exhibition "History of the construction of St. Isaac's Cathedral" was opened in St. Isaac's Cathedral. During the Great Patriotic War and the siege of Leningrad, exhibits from museums of the city and suburban palaces of Petrodvorets, Pavlovsk, Pushkin and Gatchina were transported to St. Isaac's Cathedral for preservation.
Today, the St. Isaac's Cathedral State Museum-Monument is a universally recognized All-Russian center of culture, a multifunctional museum institution that creates a feeling of the special atmosphere of a modern museum for visitors. The museum creates new expositions, exhibitions and excursion projects, sacred music sounds under the vaults of temples, social and cultural events and scientific forums are held. St. Isaac's Cathedral is included in the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage List.
The height of St. Isaac's Cathedral is 101.5 m, the diameter of the dome is 21.8 m. The area of the temple is about 4,000 sq. m. St. Isaac's Cathedral can accommodate 12 thousand people. The colonnade of St. Isaac's Cathedral is the best observation platform in St. Petersburg. You can climb to the top of the colonnade by an internal staircase, overcoming 211 steps, from where a magnificent panorama of the central part of the city opens. The official name is the Cathedral of St. Isaac of Dalmatia.
The history of the museum-monument begins in 1928, when the exhibition "History of the construction of St. Isaac's Cathedral" was opened in St. Isaac's Cathedral. During the Great Patriotic War and the siege of Leningrad, exhibits from museums of the city and suburban palaces of Petrodvorets, Pavlovsk, Pushkin and Gatchina were transported to St. Isaac's Cathedral for preservation.
Today, the St. Isaac's Cathedral State Museum-Monument is a universally recognized All-Russian center of culture, a multifunctional museum institution that creates a feeling of the special atmosphere of a modern museum for visitors. The museum creates new expositions, exhibitions and excursion projects, sacred music sounds under the vaults of temples, social and cultural events and scientific forums are held. St. Isaac's Cathedral is included in the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage List.
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Russia, St. Petersburg, Isaakievskaya sq., 4
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