Chesmenskaya Church of St. John the Baptist - a monument of architecture in the style of pseudo- Orthodox ecumenical and serving the church. The church was built to commemorate the victory of the Russian Fleet over the Turks at bay Chesmenskaya Aegean Sea in 1770 .Project of the church by the architect Yury Felten , construction was approved by Catherine II the most , according to legend, received the news of the victory Chesmenskaya exactly on the spot , where later was erected Chesme Palace , which belonged to and the church.First, the palace was called \Snachala dvorets nazyvali \u0026quot;Kikeriki\u0026quot;, no posle osveshcheniya tserkvi i dvorets, i hram stali nazyvatʹ Chesmenskimi.Torzhestvennaya zakladka hrama sostoyalasʹ 6 iyunya 1777 goda v prisut·stvii Yekateriny II, vsego dvora i shvedskogo korolya Gustava III, chtoby napomnitʹ yemu o voennom mogushchestve Rossii.The construction of the temple was completed by the tenth anniversary of the victory of the Russian fleet in the Battle Chesmen . The solemn consecration took place June 24, 1780 , which together with Catherine II, under the name of \Torzhestvennoe osvyashchenie sostoyalosʹ 24 iyunya 1780 goda, na kotorom vmeste s Yekaterinoĭ II pod imenem \u0026laquo;grafa Falʹkenshtyeĭna\u0026raquo; prisut·stvoval imperator Svyashchennoĭ Rimskoĭ imperii Iosif II.
Vnutrennyee ubranstvo tserkvi otlichaet·sya strogostʹyu i prostotoĭ.Of greatest interest are the icons of the old Italian work: .
At the entrance to the church installed a marble plaque with the inscription .
\It was founded in the 15th summer reign of Catherine II in the presence of the King of Sweden Gustav III under the name of Count Hogland and consecrated in 1780 June 24 days in the presence of His Majesty's Roman Emperor Joseph II, under the name of Count Falkenstein . \
During the Second World War the church was damaged , and the only almost thirty years later , in 1970 , work began on the restoration of the church. In 1977, the church was a branch of the Naval Museum \V 1977 godu v hrame byl otkryt filial Voenno-morskogo muzyeya \u0026quot;Chesmenskaya pobeda\u0026quot;.
S 1991 goda tserkovʹ vnovʹ stala dyeĭstvuyushchyeĭ, v nyeĭ vozobnovilisʹ bogosluzheniya.
on the territory of the church is a small cemetery . At first it was buried veterans of the Russian army , who lived at the almshouse in the military Chesmen Palace. In the mid-20th century, all the graves were destroyed. Now at this point are based soldiers who died fighting for the defense of Leningrad.
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