All Saints church, Orthodox temple in Lipetsk, Russia

All Saints Church on Vodopyanova Street is a brick Orthodox church with a bell tower, built to a design by architect Vladimir Rulyov and consecrated in stages from 2002. Its domes are covered in sheets of nitrotitanium, a material first used at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. With the bell tower's final 6.5-tonne dome in place, the building reached its designed height of 49 metres.

Construction began in spring 2002 on a pit dug in 1990 for a planned Communist Party district committee building, abandoned when the USSR dissolved. Metropolitan Methodius of Voronezh and Lipetsk consecrated the cornerstone on 31 August 2002 before about a thousand people. The last 6.5-tonne dome was raised onto the bell tower on 10 April 2008, bringing the church to its designed height of 49 metres.

The church is named for All Saints who shone forth in the Russian land, a feast tied to the Russian Orthodox calendar. Its first rector and builder, Archpriest Vladimir Seltsov, still serves as rector. The complex includes a Sunday school and a baptistery, and the church holds up to 600 worshippers.

The church stands at 49 metres, the height of a sixteen-storey block, on Vodopyanova Street in the right-bank Oktyabrsky district. The complex includes a bell tower, a Sunday school and a baptistery. Look for the domes clad in nitrotitanium sheet, a material first used at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour and rated for at least fifty years in an industrial city.

The site was originally intended for a Communist Party district committee building; a foundation pit dug in 1990 stood unused until 2002. The church domes are covered with nitrotitanium sheets, a material first used at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour and rated to last at least fifty years in an industrial city.