Сhurches and Сathedrals

Compound Holy-Transfiguration Valaam Monastery

В начале XX века эта территория принадлежала Староладожскому Успенскому женскому монастырю. В 1905 году преосвященным Антонином, епископом Нарвским, была освящена закладка нового храма. Подворье Спасо-Преображенского Валаамского ставропигиального мужского монастыря и...

Church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin

Церковь построена в неорусском стиле по проекту архитектора Н.Н.Никонова в 1889-1893. Церковь выполнена в стиле русских церквей XVII века. Отделку церкви выполняли суздальские мастера во главе с М.С. Серебряковым. Образа были исполнены князем Г.Г.Гагариным. Церковь была...

Chapel of Mother of God Joy of All Who Sorrow

The chapel was built in 1832 by architect Adrian I. Ochakov. Compound Holy-Transfiguration Valaam Monastery. Since 1919 he became the parish church. In 1932 – closed. In the 1990s, returned to the chapel to the Valaam monastery and re-opened for parishioners After construction -. Chapel of St. Nicholas wore the name.. In the early twentieth century in the parish church, in which then the number of the chapel, stored image of St. Nicholas, donated by merchant D. Polezhaev. In 1820,...

Holy Trinity Community of the Sisters of Mercy

The complex of buildings, consisting of – Women’s Hospital with the Church, outpatient and residential premises (. Vorotilov architect Evgraf, 1874-75), service wings (. Architect AF Krasovsky, 1882-84), girls’ school (architect WR. . Kurzanov, 1889-91), men’s hospital (1876-1880-e, Vorotilov, Krasovsky, Kurzanov). restaurant sisters of mercy community was established in 1844 on the initiative of Paul I, granddaughter of Princess Theresa of Oldenburg, Duchess of...

Church of St Helena queen

In 1870, the Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna, widow of Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich, patronized health facilities, proposed the establishment of a hospital for the poor with 100 beds, by combining it with the scientific and educational center. In 1878 tab of the new building was carried out by architect P . Gedike. Fixed assets allocated for the construction of the Treasury, on the petition of the Grand Duchess. May 21, 1885, the feast of St Queen Helena, the country’s first institution of...

Grand Choral Synagogue

Great Choral Synagogue, the spiritual center of Petersburg, multi-religious Jews. Built in the late 19th century on the orders of Alexander II, as a gesture of liberalization and the easing of restrictions for Jews, to the same, high level of education of the past could quickly occupy high positions in the machine and help gosudartsvennoy to grow the community. But even after the approval of the king of the search for land for the construction of the building (by the way, too, erected on the...