Church of Alexander Nevsky

Church of Alexander Nevsky This is the second temple, after the laurels dedicated to this saint and national hero.
At this point in the early 13th century there was a chapel dedicated to the victory over the Swedes in the Battle of the Neva. After several hundred years already Peter I erects a wooden church here, but after it burned several times by lightning, at the end of the 18th century stone church was built by the believers, then warmed and expanded by an attached refectory and bell tower. In Soviet times it suffered the fate of the majority, it was closed and the building was given to the warehouse during the Second World War it was blown up. But since 1992, it is fully functional and renovated, situated near the monument to Alexander Nevsky chapel.

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