Holy Places

Church of the Annunciation, Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Baltic Sea · Russia · Saint Petersburg

The wooden Church of the Annunciation was built here in 1738. Many historically interesting parishioners attended the Church. Quite high-ranking government employees, officials, and military men were among them. They included Major General Pyotr Shipilev, Lieutenant General Mikhail Vakhrushev, Brigadier Ivan Maslov, Infantry Officer Artemy Shishkov...

Church of the Annunciation, St. Alexander Nevsky Church Dnieper River · Ukraine · Dnepropetrovsk

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Church of the Ascension of Christ Moscow Oblast · Russia · Kolomna

The Church of the Ascension was first mentioned in 1578. The wooden church was repeatedly rebuilt during its existence. In 1786, a stone Church of the Ascension was first reported. It had a stone bell tower and a heated church dedicated to the Great Martyr Saint Catherine with a side chapel of the Great Martyr Saint Barbara. The Church took o...

Church of the Ascension of Christ Russia · Nizhny Lomov

A stone church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker (later renamed) with a side chapel dedicated to St. Mitrofan of Voronezh was built from 1870 to 1876 to the efforts of priest Pyotr Kamensky. In 1880, the Church was consecrated. Since Karemsha settlement was included into Ust-Karemsha village, the Church parish, restored in 1991, was registered in...

Church of the Ascension of Christ in Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street, Church of the Small Ascension Russia · Moscow

Bolshaya (eng. Big) Nikitskaya Street is really big. It stretches from the Kremlin to the Garden Ring. This is the longest street in Moscow centre. Grandfather of the first Romanov, boyar Nikita Romanovich, founded a convent at the beginning of the street. It was dedicated to his namesake St. Martyr Nikita after whom the street was named. The co...

Church of the Ascension on the Postlingberg Mountain Europe · Austria · Linz

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Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary Moscow Oblast · Russia · Kolomna

The Church of the Assumption was built in 1770 with support from landlady T. Tetyusheva. The Church has two side-chapels dedicated to St. Tatiana and St. John the Warrior. The Church was shut down in the 1930s. The holly vessels were confiscated. A warehouse of fertilizers occupied the building. In the 1970s, there was a fire in the Church...

Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, Austrian Church Volga River · Russia · Gorodets

The Church of the Assumption was founded in the second half of the 19th century. After 1905, the building was reconstructed. The Church of the Assumption is a small brick rectangular church with one dome and a tented-roof bell tower. It is an Old-Rite church of Belokrinitskaya Hierarchy, The so-called belokrinichniki gathered there. To say...

Church of the Blachernitissa Icon of the Theotokos in Kuzminki Russia · Moscow

The Church is situated in the centre of the estate. The first wooden church was built there in 1716, in Stroganovs' time. It was consecrated and dedicated to the Blachernitissa Icon of the Theotokos, the family sacred icon of the estate's owners. The Icon was given this name since originally it was kept in Blachernae (a small town on the bank of...

Church of the Deposition of the Robe in Donskaya Street Russia · Moscow

In ancient times, the square of Kaluzhskaya Gate and Vorobyovo Field often became a battlefield where defenders of the Russian capital fought against unwelcome "guests" trying to capture Moscow. In 1591, a camp of the Russian army resisting the horde of Gazi II Giray, the Khan of the Crimean Tatars, situated there. In 1612, troops of the Polish ...