Sankt Nikolai
Sankt Nikolai is an Orthodox church in Stuttgart, with red-brick walls and an eclectic single-nave design. External stairs lead to a vestibule beneath a tower, where a small onion dome rises above semicircular windows. A larger dome marks the nave, while irregular semicircular windows bring white-stone frames across the façade.
Vera Konstantinovna Romanova initiated the church in 1895 to honour her adoptive mother, Queen Olga Nikolaevna Romanova of Württemberg. Russian Orthodox life in Stuttgart reaches back to Grand Duchess Catherine Pavlovna of Russia and her marriage to the future King William of Württemberg. Bombing in 1944 left only the outer walls, but restoration with city support rebuilt the church by 1972, including an iconostasis by Nikolai Shelekhov. A bell tower joined the building in 1998, which now serves as a parish seat and houses a Russian school and cultural centre.
Look up at the entrance tower for its small onion dome, then compare it with the larger dome above the nave.
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