Locate at 16, Gaolan Road (formerly 18 Rue Corneille), Lúwan District is an Orthodox Church built in 1934 which was originally called St Nicholas Church. On February 15, 1994 the building was recognized as a city-level cultural relic preservation unit and was also once used as a washing machine factory. It is occupied by a French restaurant called the Ashanti Dome on the upper floor and a Spanish tapas bar on the ground floor called Boca.

A short walk west along Gaolan Rd from Fuxing Park is rewarded by the distinctive shape of the vacant and now derelict St Nicholas Church, one of Shanghai's small band of Russian Orthodox houses of worship, built to service the huge influx of Russians who arrived in Shanghai in the 1930s.

Dating from 1934, the church has a typically varied CV, ranging from shrine to washing-machine factory and French restaurant (the latter recalled by the inscription 'Ashanti Dome' on the plaque embedded above the door). The church was spared destruction during the Cultural Revolution by a portrait of Mao Zedong, hung strategically from its dome.