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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.
The Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church was essentially shut down in 1930 through this means, and in the remainder of the decade most of its bishops were killed as well as many of its followers. [38] [51] A number of Protestant and Roman Catholic dignitaries were "exposed" as foreign spies in 1929–1930. Charges of espionage were commonly ...
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]
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 ...
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).