Getting Green With Envy At The St. Nicholas Cathedral In Almaty

Around the same time the famous yellow Ascension Cathedral was being built, a similar, green, Russian Orthodox church was being constructed in another part of Almaty. Pick color.

Behold, St. Nicholas Cathedral.

View of the steeple and a statue of a confident priest. Is he holding a carrot (church model) and a stick of death (sword)? Tough choice. Heading inside.

Ba-bling. Gold everywhere, endless painting on the walls.

Getting a little creepy with an open casket coffin, containing a saint not named Nicholas. Thanks, just a quick glance. Or maybe stick simply to lighting a candle by a portrait of the main man.

Gazing upward. Seems heavenly.