7 Orthodox churches in neo-Gothic style

Both tsars and private individuals were willing to experiment with church construction. Abandoning the familiar so-called "kokoshnik keel-like" arches and golden domes, they commissioned their architects to use pointed arches, spires and towers soaring to the sky...

In the 18th and 19th centuries, churches built in the Gothic style began to appear in Russia, something that would seem to be alien to Orthodox Chris