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After the October Revolution, the church was looted. In 1930, it was closed and used in the 1930s by NKVD as the place of mass executions. [citation needed] In 1975, the building was transferred to the Museum of History of Moscow and in 1991, it was returned the Russian Orthodox Church.
The Epiphany Cathedral was returned to the Russian Orthodox Church in 1996-1997. Since then the church holds daily services. The bell tower is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Culture of Tatarstan. It houses the Old Russian Art Exhibition Hall of the State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan. In 2001, the Chaliapin Chamber ...
Therefore, it was decided to build a new stone church. Construction of the building was started in 1823 in honor of victory over Napoleon in 1812, and was finished in 1826. It was built on the project of architect Ivan Starov in Classicist style. [2] The church in 1920s. In 1930s, the church was destroyed and closed.
Church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin of Derbent; Church of the Intercession of the Most Holy Mother of God, Kamensk-Uralsky; Church of the Intercession of the Most Holy Mother of God, Volkovskoye; Church of the Life-Giving Trinity (Bataysk) Church of the Life-Giving Trinity (Kamensk-Shakhtinsky) Church of the Life-Giving Trinity ...
By the mid-1930s the general failure of the movement had become evident. Having failed to attract the majority of the faithful, the movement ceased to be useful for the Soviet regime and, consequently, both the "Patriarchal" Church and the Renovationists suffered fierce persecution at the hands of Soviet secret services: church buildings were closed down and often destroyed; active clergy and ...
And to the community of Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church belonged the old wooden church. In 1923, the wooden church was closed, and its congregation moved into the stone Pokrovsky temple. In 1930 this temple was closed, too, and its building was used to house a radio workshop. In 1946 it was re-opened, but was given to Russian Orthodox Old-Rite ...
After the fall of the Soviet Union, the Kazan Cathedral was the first church to be completely rebuilt after having been destroyed by the Communists.The cathedral's restoration (1990–1993) was sponsored by the Moscow city branch of the All-Russian Society for Historic Preservation and Cultural Organization, and was based on the detailed measurements and photographs of the original church.
The history of the Russian Orthodox Church begins with the Christianization of Kievan Rus' in 988 during the reign of Vladimir the Great. [1] [2] In the following centuries, Kiev and later other cities, including Novgorod, Pskov, Rostov, Suzdal and Vladimir, became important regional centers of Christian spirituality and culture. [1]