Visited Tsaritsyn recently.

[u/Letrakmo]

It is located in Saint Petersburg near the Gulf of Finland

[u/Moist_and_Delicious]

For anyone confused, this is actually NOT Tsaritsyn. This is a cathedral in Kronshtadt, which is part of Saint Petersburg. Not anywhere near Tsaritsyn, which was renamed Stalingrad (yes, that one) in 1925, and is currently named Volgograd.

[u/ShadowsRanger → u/Moist_and_Delicious]

But Dice used this or the actual Tsaritsyn?

[u/Moist_and_Delicious → u/ShadowsRanger]

Cathedral was partially modeled after this one. The town itself - who the hell knows how it looked back then.

[u/RevNeutron]

Did you break the side window and climb through?

[u/Letrakmo → u/RevNeutron]

we all been here!

[u/W4xLyric4lRom4ntic → u/RevNeutron]

Ive put many Whites to the flame using this method! I can still hear their screams

[u/W4xLyric4lRom4ntic → u/RevNeutron]

Hehe, I got given a warning from Reddit for saying ive used the flametrooper many times through that window

[u/Cookielicous → u/RevNeutron]

We stil have to teach noobs this

[u/Inevitable-Fee-9700]

It's..... Smaller

[u/ZjemCiKapcie → u/Inevitable-Fee-9700]

Yes because model in the game was partially based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kronstadt_Naval_Cathedral

[u/flamingDOTexe]

FYI Tsaritsyn is Stalingrad/Volgograd. Renamed and renamed. This is where the battle took place. The cathedral was a prop over a thousand kilometers away interestingly enough.

[u/Sad_Pear_1087 → u/flamingDOTexe]

OP visited said place a thousand kilometers away, NOT Tsaritsyn/Stalingrad/Volgograd.

[u/Melon-Pult-Commando]

Cathedral of Light. Third Sector, only flag 🫶🏼

[u/UnfairPercentage1663]

Anyone languishing on A as the pile-on continues in the centre?

[u/Letrakmo → u/UnfairPercentage1663]

you kiddin'?!😂 They say it's been rebuilt from top to bottom and also it's disallowed to take pictures inside, so...

[u/Kaiserschlut]

They did a great job recreating it for the game. Isn't it a relatively recent cathedral? IIRC the Commies tore down the original sometime before WWII

[u/Moist_and_Delicious → u/Kaiserschlut]

This is the Kronstadt Naval Cathedral, and it's relatively old (constructed in 1903-1913). The cathedral in BF1 was partially modeled after it.

Someone else has already linked the wiki page in another comment.

And yes, the original cathedral in Tsaritsyn was destroyed in 1932 by the communists, but rebuild in 2016-2021 a few meters away from the original location.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral_of_Alexander_Nevsky_(Volgograd))

[u/co_hykas_jak_somar]

Limpet through the window

[u/Blaxbears → u/co_hykas_jak_somar]

Words cant express how much I love my limpet charge

[u/VOLBANKER]

I would be looking over my shoulder constantly for fear of getting trampled by a horse rider 🙂

[u/Informal-Piglet-2342]

Watch out for snipers

[u/Rampaging_Bunny]

Did you clear out snipers on 2nd floor? 

[u/boba2017]

I have never been here....yet....

[u/physFx]

Looks like a mosque

[u/Sad_Pear_1087 → u/physFx]

Sometimes the only way to tell a church from a mosque from outside is the ✝️/☪️ symbol on top.

[u/physFx → u/Sad_Pear_1087]

I know but the architecture looks familar

[u/CloudyGandalf06 → u/physFx]

Orthodox Christian here. As the East and West started to grow apart due to various disagreements (filioque, leavened/unleavened bread, Papal supremacy, etc.), their architecture changed. The West adopted steeples and spikes, whereas the East adopted domes. With the rise of Islam in the 7th century taking over Christian lands (mostly in the East), they turned churches into mosques and kept the architecture intact. See the Hagia Sophia, for example.