The Church of the Savior on Blood in Saint Petersburg stands beside the Griboedov Canal, near where Alexander II was assassinated in March 1881. Alfred Parland was chief architect, and the infobox also lists Archimandrite Ignaty, or Ivan Malyshev. The Romanov imperial family built it in his honor. Construction ran from 1883 to 1907.
The infobox calls the style Russian Revival, and the text describes a medieval Russian style in the spirit of romantic nationalism. Mosaics cover over 7,065 square meters (76,000 sq ft). The text gives the cost as 4.5 million rubles in one place and over 4.6 million elsewhere.
The Soviets closed the church in 1932. Management passed to Saint Isaac's Cathedral in July 1970, and it reopened in August 1997 after 27 years of restoration. It is a secular museum of mosaics, not reconsecrated, and the article gives no hours.
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