Church of the Resurrection of Christ (Saint Petersburg)

116 Obvodny Canal Embankment, Saint Petersburg (tel.: +7 812 316-00-93), Metro station: "Baltiyskaya".

A rail road to Peterhof began from Baltiysky Rail Terminal. Nearby, next to Warsaw Rail Terminal, on the bank of Obvodny Canal, stands a huge building of the Church of the Resurrection of Christ, built according to a design by architects German Grimm, Gustav von Goli, and Andrei Huhn from 1904 to 1908. Its style resembles the 17th-century modernized Russian churches.

Workers of the neighbouring factories came there to pray. Thus, the Church was designed to accommodate as many people as possible. Up to 4,000 people could attend the church services simultaneously. About a million people visited the Church annually.

The Church was under Alexander Nevsky Temperance Society. An enormous but delicate bell tower is coupled with a massive dome and four small decorative domes. On the outside, the Church is finished with glazed bricks. The western facade was decorated with a big Resurrection painting by Sergey Shelkov.

The Church does not have columns, and you get the impression of a huge inner space. Almost nothing of the unique interior furnishings has survived till nowadays. The main role in the interior was played by canvases painted on cardboards. They were used to make mosaics for the Church of the Saviour on Spilled Blood.

The main Church's sacred object was the Resurrection Icon gifted by Patriarch Damianus of Jerusalem to Alexander Nevsky Temperance Society. The Church of the Resurrection was an Orthodox centre for alcoholism. Soon after the 1917 October Revolution, it was shut down and turned into a warehouse. As late as 1990, the building was returned to the believers, and church services were resumed.

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