Nicholas Naval Cathedral ( official name - the Naval Cathedral of St. Nicholas and Epiphany) in St. Petersburg - Orthodox Church of St. Petersburg Diocese of the Russian Church , located on St. Nicholas Square. It is a magnificent monument to the late Baroque architecture .
Neighbourhoods was built one-story barracks. They lived in the servants of the Navy Office. This is indicated by the names of streets and Kanonersky Kanonersky Lane (\Об этом говорят названия Канонерской улицы и Канонерского переулка (\u0026laquo;канонир\u0026raquo; или \u0026laquo;канонер\u0026raquo; \u0026mdash; значит \u0026laquo;пушкарь\u0026raquo;).Before our time are preserved stone buildings Nicholas Market , built in 1788-1789 , respectively. Selecting a location other than the cathedral storoitelstva availability of free land in the southern part of the regimental court, and determined the proximity of waterways - the Fontanka, Catherine (now Griboedov) and Kryukov canals.
St. Nicholas Naval Cathedral was built at the personal request of Prince Golitsyn MM to the Empress Elizabeth in the period from 1753 to 1762 (architect C. Chevakinsky ) on the sea regimental court in place of a wooden church . Two-story cathedral is in terms of ravnokonechny cross.It is crowned with five widely spaced heads with golden domes, festively decorated with stucco and decorated with Corinthian columns . A perfect mix of golden domes , facades and white blue columns gives the whole temple of elegance and solemnity. The cathedral holds about five thousand people at a time.Freestanding chetyrehyarusnaya , completed high spire bell tower was built in 1755-1758 , respectively.
Lower trehpridelnaya Nicholas Church was consecrated in the name of St. Nicholas, which has traditionally been considered the patron saint of flying and traveling , the upper odnoprestolnaya church - in the name of the Epiphany .They preserved the carved iconostasis of XVIII century , performed by IF Kanaeva and Nikulin . Image of the brothers wrote Kolokol'nikova : Fedot at the top , Mina in the lower church .
at the dedication of the cathedral he named the sea , it marked the victory rosciyskogo fleet.The main shrine of the cathedral - a Greek icon of St. Nicholas of the XVII century with a particle of his relics - is located in the lower church .
Catherine the Great ordered to give the cathedral ten images in the memory of the Russian naval victories over the Turkish and Swedish fleets .St. Nicholas Cathedral, which became a temple -monument naval glory of Russia, took an active part in the life of the Russian fleet. Any important event - the laying of a new ship , his descent into the water , an overseas expedition or returning from a long voyage the ship - was accompanied by the liturgy.It goes without saying that in this Cathedral had been solemn prayers at the main naval victories . It also commemorated the dead and sailors. In memory of heroes memorial marble plaque installed . For example, paid tribute to sailors who perished in the Russian- Japanese war of 1904-1905.
in the garden in front of the temple in 1908 was erected the obelisk in the Tsushima memory of those killed at Tsushima, designed by a naval officer Prince Putiatina .
In the cathedral since 1870 operated a charitable society with schools, hospitals, orphanages and women's almshouse .After the 1917 revolution Oktyabrckoy Nicholas Naval Cathedral was not closed , and in 1941-1999 he was the cathedral , and during the siege there lived Metropolitan Alexy , the future Patriarch of All Russia Alexy I.
In 2000, the lower tier of the bell was consecrated a chapel.
In the upper temple memorial boards crew nuclear submarine \
V verhnem hrame ustanovleny memorialʹnye doski ekipazham APL \u0026laquo;Komsomolets\u0026raquo; i drugih zatonuvshih sovet·skih submarin.V dni pamyati sovershayut·sya panihidy po chlenam ekipazhyeĭ.
Church influenced the toponymy of the city and gave his name to the square , lane , market, and the Old and New Nikolsky bridges, as well as continued street name of Glinka .
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