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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 ...
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 ...
Church of Our Lady of Kazan (also Church of the Theotokos of Kazan, Russian: Церковь Казанской иконы Божьей Матери, Finnish: Terijoen ortodoksinen kirkko) is a Russian Orthodox church in Zelenogorsk (Finnish:Terijoki) in Russia. It was completed in 1915 while the town was a part of the Grand Duchy of Finland.
In 1886, a parish school was built at the church. Since 1906, the church-parish guardianship began to function. In 1920, Katerininskaya village was renamed Krasnodonetskaya. In 1930–1940 the church was closed. The domes of the church, both in the main building and the bell tower were cut off. The church was used as a granary.
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 ...
The Diocese of Barnaul (Russian: Барнаульская епархия) is a diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church, uniting parishes and monasteries in the northeastern part of the Altai Krai (within the borders of the cities of Barnaul and Novoaltaysk, as well as Zalesovsky, Zarinsky, Kosikhinsky, Kytmanovsky, Pervomaisky, Talmensky and Togulsky districts).
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 ...