Saviour Church on Sennaya Square

[1] It was rebuilt in stone in the 1750s to a Rastrelliesque design attributed to Andrey Kvasov and was slightly modified on several occasions, most importantly by Luigi Rusca in 1817.

The church boasted a high belfry of three storeys, a gilded icon screen, and many valuable items.

[2] The large building with the distinctive dark-green jug-like domes, popularly known as the Saviour Church, used to dominate the surrounding district.

It gave its name to Spassky Island (the central parcel of the downtown wedged between the Fontanka, Moika, Griboyedov and Kryukov canals) and Spasskaya metro station.

The building survived the Joseph Stalin period intact and was even elevated by the Living Church to a cathedral status (in 1923) but was blown up at the height of Nikita Khrushchev's anti-religious campaign in 1961.

Spasa-na-Sennoy Church and the Hay Market in 1841
Sennaya Square at the beginning of the XX century; the church was blown up by the Soviet regime in 1961, and the market has since been disassembled