The Church on the Spilled Blood was built between 1883 and 1907. The real name of the church is the Church of the Resurrection of Christ, but the Spilled Blood moniker comes from it's founding. It was built to commemmorate the very spot were Tsar Alexander II was mortally wounded by a terrorist bomb. Inside the church, is a spot covered by a canopy which is apparently where the blood was spilled.
The church is astonishing. It looks like it has been plucked out of a fairy tale, with its beautiful onion domes and multi-coloured facades. Inside the beauty just escalates. It is covered floor to ceiling with mosaics, possibly more than any other church in the world.
After the Russian revolution, the beautiful church suffered. It was closed for decades, it was used as a morgue, it was used to store vegetables. In the 1970's its restoration began. It took 27 years to restore the church that had taken 24 to build.
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