Gothic Chapel (Peterhof)

Gothic Chapel in Peterhof is an Orthodox church in the name of Saint Alexander Nevsky situated in the Alexandria Park of Petergof, Russia.

It was designed at the request of Nicholas I of Russia by Karl Friedrich Schinkel in Gothic Revival style in 1829 and consecrated in July 1834.

Prior to the Russian Revolution of 1917 this Gothic structure functioned as the private family church of the House of Romanov.

Later, in 1860s, the church acquired copies of paintings by the same artist; it housed numerous icons donated by the Romanovs.

During the reburial of Empress Maria Fyodorovna in September 2006, her coffin was brought to the chapel which served as her home church during the reign of Alexander III.