The historic St. Nicholas Church had been used as an office, a factory, private residence, and restaurant in the years since it ceased being a place of Russian Orthodox worship. But its highest calling visually, at least may well be its current incarnation as Sinan Books, a poetry bookstore designed by Wutopia Lab.
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