Holy Places

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

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 modernize...

Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Foros Black Sea · Ukraine · Yalta

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Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Kadashi Russia · Moscow

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Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Sokolniki Russia · Moscow

The Church of the Resurrection of Christ was built from 1909 to 1913 by architect Pavel Tolstykh. The construction committee was chaired by Father Ioann (I. Kedrov); people named it Kedrovskaya Church (the Church of Kedrov). Unlike other traditional Russian churches, this one is oriented the different direction. According to a legend, the chairm...

Church of the Resurrection of Christ in the Former Semyonovskoye Cemetery Russia · Moscow

The Russian Revival Church was built in 1855 with greatest financial support from merchant M. Mushnikov as well as on donations from parishioners in Semyonovskoye Cemetery, founded in 1711 after the cholera epidemic. Being a basilica-type building, popular in the second half of the 19th century, it is a large, stretched along the east-west axis ...

Church of the Resurrection of Christ, Afghan Church Dnieper River · Ukraine · Kiev

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Church of the Resurrection, Church of Nikola Posadsky Moscow Oblast · Russia · Kolomna

The Church of Nikola Posadsky (the Resurrection Church) is one of the oldest churches in Kolomna. In the days of the Golden Horde, a church dedicated to St. Nicholas the Wet was erected in Kolomna Posad. It was first mentioned in cadastres of 1577–1578. The stone St. Nicholas's Church was built in the early 18th century through donations of pari...

Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood, Church on Spilt Blood, Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ Baltic Sea · Russia · Saint Petersburg

On 1 March 1881, Ignaty Grinevitsky, a member of the People's Will terrorist organization, let off a bomb in Yekaterininsky Canal Embankment and gravely wound Emperor Alexander II, who was on his way back from the parade in Mikhailovsky Manege. As early as in 15 days after the assassination, a temporary mobile chapel, designed by Leon Benois, was c...

Church of the Saviour in Ryady Volga River · Russia · Kostroma

The Church of the Saviour in Ryady was first mentioned in the 1628 Kostroma cadastre: "and the church was dedicated to the Saviour, the Procession of the Venerable Wood of the Cross." A stone church with a bell tower replaced the wooden one in 1766. The construction was financially supported by merchant Stefan Belov. Ivan Bazhenov, a church hist...

Church of the Three Holy Hierarchs Baltic Sea · Russia · Saint Petersburg

In 1740, St. Andrew's Cathedral was still constructed of wood and not heated at that time. Parishioners thoroughly explained how inconvenient it was to hold services at the church during the winter and asked Empress Anna of Russia to build a heated, stone church near the existing one. By imperial order, the foundations of the Church of the Three...