Transfiguration Cathedral (Saint Petersburg)

Lutheran Church of St. Catherine Baltic Sea · Russia · Saint Petersburg

From the foundation of St. Petersburg, many Lutherans have including merchants, military men, officials, and students lived in Vasilievsky Island. In 1728, a community was formed. It occupied a wooden house at the corner of 1st Line and Bolshoi Avenue. On 16 June 1729, a prayer room was consecrated there. Later, the house was used as a base to b...

Armenian Church of the Resurrection of Christ Baltic Sea · Russia · Saint Petersburg

In 1791, a decree by Catherine the Great allowed Ivan Lazarev, the head of the Armenian community, to construct "a small stone church for burying deceased Armenians" together with a almshouse, to a design of the architect Georg Friedrich Veldten, near the Smolensk Lutheran Cemetery. This Church was conceived by Lazarev as a family vault. Soon, a...

Church of St. Pantaleon in Solyanoi Lane Baltic Sea · Russia · Saint Petersburg

At the same time the civil shipyard on the banks of the Fontanka River was being built, a chapel was erected along the riverside. A wooden wattle church was built here in 1722. Its consecration took place on 2 September, 1722, in the absence of the Emperor Peter I. Having been in Astrakhan at that time, he sent an order to consecrate the church in ...