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Just beyond the fortress' southeastern edge is Anders Bundgaard's monumental
Gefion
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, depicting the Norse goddess Gefion
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steering some rather stoic oxen.
Aleksander Nevskij Kirke
CHURCH
Completed in 1883, golden-domed Alexander Newsky Kirke flaunts a Russian Byzantine
style, complete with marble staircase, mosaic floors and Byzantine-style frescoes. The
bronze chandelier was a gift from Tsar Alexander III, who commissioned the church.