Trinity Cathedral in Saint Petersburg was designed by Vasily Stasov for Emperor Nicholas I, after the 1824 flood damaged the earlier wooden church. The infobox gives 1828 to 1835. The text says work began in May 1828 and the cathedral was consecrated in May 1835.
The infobox calls the style Russian Neoclassical, and the text calls it a late Empire-style example. The article gives no materials. It is 246 feet (75 m) long and wide and 262 feet (80 m) tall to the top cross, with an area of 3,500 square meters and a capacity of 3,000.
The main dome and a smaller dome collapsed after a fire in August 2006, which started on restoration scaffolding. The cathedral reopened in 2010. In 1990 it returned to the Russian Orthodox Church, and restoration began. It is an active Russian Orthodox church and part of the Saint Petersburg World Heritage Site. The article gives no hours.
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