The sanctuary is roofed with three bulbous domes built of light white marble and stand on the red sandstone walls.
The walls were of white marble, supporting a huge bulbous dome of the same milky rock.
The bulbous domes are, however, in the Timurind style.
Each corner of the terrace has a little tower surmounted with a bulbous dome and a spire.
At each end of the façade stands a square tower with a bulbous dome, such as found in Central Europe.
By the end of the nineteenth century, most Russian churches from before the Petrine period had bulbous domes.
Each of the towers originally were also topped by a bulbous dome which have since been removed.
It is of octagonal plan, with a large central double-layered bulbous dome.
The additional four stories are surmounted by a cylindrical drum and a bulbous dome.
From the high bulbous domes gold saints stared down at the masses of working, breathing carbon chemistry below.