The Orthodox Church of St. Peter and Paul

The beautifully decorated Byzantine style Orthodox Church of St. Peter and Paul was built in the then emerging elite residential area of the Westend in 1893-1898. The building was modelled on the Byzantine-old Russian church near Moscow. The richly decorated church in the shape of a Greek cross is topped by five gold-plated domes. The walls of the Church are decorated by rich ornamental sculptures and figurative paintings. The church’s inner furnishings consist of rich majolica wooden iconostasis with oil icons.