Actually, there are two Catholic churches in St.Petersburg, and one of those used to be a cathedral (when there was a cathedra, I mean, the seat of the Catholic diocese was in St.Pete, not in Moscow,) but none of those two churches is Peter and Paul's - one is Dormition (the ex-cathedral,) and the other, and more centrally located, St. Catherine's. The Peter and Paul's still is Eastern Orthodox, and most likely remains so.
I actually went to one of those churches on Christmas (our Christmas, Western Christmas) the year I was an exchange student. I'm not Catholic, but the Protestant churches were not open on Christmas because they are so small and it wasn't on a Sunday.
I think the church was on Nevsky Prospekt, but almost hidden from street view until you are actually at it because it's set back so far from the sidewalk - St. Catherine's, probably.
Yes, that's St.Catherine's. A predominantly Polish parish, AFAIR. There is a couple of decent Lutheran ones in St.Pete's, and they are definitely open for a Christmas service, but I guess both were closed for renovation for many years, until quite recently -- the Swedish one and the Finnish one.
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I think the church was on Nevsky Prospekt, but almost hidden from street view until you are actually at it because it's set back so far from the sidewalk - St. Catherine's, probably.
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There is a couple of decent Lutheran ones in St.Pete's, and they are definitely open for a Christmas service, but I guess both were closed for renovation for many years, until quite recently -- the Swedish one and the Finnish one.
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