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Nearby, at the Russian Orthodox church with an emerald onion dome, a woman behind the closed gates explained that the church, despite its usual operating hours, was now closed to visitors.

The local church, with its onion dome, sits next to the school.

To the west in the park, the lime green “Electric Kiss,” also from 2008, stands 10 feet tall in a meadow, its shape evoking an onion dome, or a teardrop, or a Hershey’s Kiss.

The onion dome, which weighs eight tons and is 12 meters high, is the first of five to top the cathedral slated for completion in October.

But at the apex of the roof, instead of a point there is a small glass turret, topped with an onion dome of the kind you might see on a local church.