The Franciscan Monastery (Vyborg Town)

Subject / Religion. Church/Churches of other confessions
Subject / Religion. Church/Monasteries and convents
The Franciscan Monastery (Vyborg Town, 4 Vodnaya Zastava Street). The Monastery was founded in the 15th century. A monastery school building of the 16th century, built from granite boulders and bricks is survived. In the middle of the 17th century the building was rebuilt for the nobility assembly of the town and called as Knight House. In the 18th century "The Society of Vyborg Knights" made the large hall in the first floor; cellars and ground floor were used for utility rooms. In 1799 the building was adapted for the Catholic chapel of St. Hyacinthe. In 1856 the chapel got the rights of the parish church. Prelate Gustav-Adolg Karling was the church dean from 1914 until 1927. The church was closed in March 1940 after the conquering of the town by the Soviet troops. It worked during 1941-1944 and was finally closed in 1944, the building was damaged during World War II. The church building was restored in 1972 as the Knight House (according to the project of the architect M.A. Dementyeva); some interiors of the 17th-18th centuries were revived. The building was adapted for a children's art school. Shkarovsky, Mikhail Vitalyevich
Dementyeva, M.A.
Karling, Gustav -Adolf
Leningrad Oblast, the/Vyborg District/Vyborg Town/Vodnaya Zastava Street
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