Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception (Rimsko-katolicheskii Khram Neporochnogo Zachatiya)

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• This church was built in 1911, closed in 1937 and re-opened in 1996. One of only two neo-Gothic churches in Europe, this tall building underwent a very complicated restoration process as it had been completely re-shaped both inside and out while used successively as a place to store vegetables, a hostel and office space! The restoration took place in 1996-99 - the original design of architects Foma Bogdankevic and Ignatii Dauksza was used to make it look as it did before the Revolution.
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