The Cathedral of the Annunciation of the Mother of God (Schlusselburg)

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The Cathedral of the Annunciation of the Mother of God (the town of Schlusselburg, 1 Krasnaya Square). The first wooden church was laid according to the order of Peter I in 1702 after the regress of the Oreshek Fortress to Russia. It became dilapidated by 1725 and was demolished. The new wooden church was built in 1728, it was burned in 1756. The stone Baroque style Cathedral was built on that place in 1764. The Cathedral of Apostles Peter and Paul in St. Petersburg was the prototype of the new stone cathedral. From 1788 to 1795 the cathedral was rebuilt, the 55-metre bell-tower crowned with a spire was built up to the west façade. In 1864 it hot the status of the cathedral. The revered icons: the icon of the Annunciation of the Mother of God (1715), the icon of the Mother of God ""The Sign"" (1825), the icon of the Saviour (1875), the icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker and the Last God's Supper were saved in the cathedral. In 1922 the church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker and the church of the Transfiguration of Christ in Shlisselburg and four chapels: two ones in in the honour of the local revered Kazan Icon of the Mother of God (one of them was located in the fortress, other - in the town), the chapel of the Icon of Christ the Edessa in the village of Lipki and the chapel of St Nicholas in the village of Maryino were attached to the cathedral. Archpriest Tikhon Tikhomirov, the cathedral dean from 1921, was arrested in the middle of the 1930s. The cathedral was closed on 9 June 1935, the building was usedfor ship-building workshops. During the German occupation from 1941 to 1943 the cathedral worked, it was greatly destroyed from bombardments. In 1949 believers sent in an application about opening the cathedral but they were refused. In 1967 the cathedral was rented by the Leningrad Factory of Gramophone Records, it was reconstructed for industry requirements. In the 1970s the cathedral was partly restored (on the design of A.N. Miloradovich). In 1990 the cathedral was returned to belivers. The cathedral was attached to the church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. The public worships are performed. Shkarovsky, Mikhail Vitalyevich
Bertash, Aleksandr Vitalyevich
Miloradovich*, A.N.
Peter I, Emperor
Tikhomirov, Tikhon Sergeyevich
Leningrad Oblast, the/Shlisselburg Town/Krasnaya Square (Red Square)
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