Nativity of Our Lord Church

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NATIVITY OF OUR LORD CHURCH, located at Sixth Sovetskaya Street, at the corner of Krasnoborsky Lane, constructed in Peski in 1781-88 in the style of high Classicism (architect P. E. Egorov), replacing the wooden church of the same name constructed in 1753 for workmen of the Construction Chancellery. The new church had three side-altars and held 2,000 people. The facade was decorated with an Ionian portico, with two bell towers at the corners. The iconostases were made by engraver I. F. Dunker; icons were painted by I. I. Belsky, A. P. Antropov, I. M. Tonkov, and wall paintings – by artists F. D. Danilov and F. A. Shcherbakov. In 1850-51, side-altars were transformed and redesigned by architect Y. V. Vetluzhsky, in 1886-87 a vestibule and sacristy were attached (architect I. P. Ropet). The Icons of Nativity of Our Lord (Protector of Peski) and of saints Gurias, Samonas and Abibus were especially revered. In 1863, the first Russian charitable congregation that kept a school, an orphanage and a hospital, was established on the initiative of priest A. V. Gumilevsky. In 1934, the church was closed down and demolished, a public garden was arranged on the land. From the Nativity of Our Lord Church come the former names of the Sovetskaya streets which were formerly Rozhdestvenskaya streets, which mean nativity.

References: Корольков А. И. Христорождественская церковь в С.-Петербурге на Песках. СПб., 1893; Антонов В. В., Кобак А. В. Святыни С.-Петербурга: Ист.-церков. энцикл. СПб., 1997. Т. 1. С. 220-222.

V. V. Antonov. Antropov Alexey
Belsky Ivan Ivanovich
Danilov Fedor Danilovich
Dunker Johann Franz
Egorov Peter Egorovich
Gumilevsky Alexander Vasilievich
Ropet Ivan Pavlovich (real name Petrov Ivan Nikolaevich)
Shcherbakov Fedor A.
Tonkov Ivan Mikhailovich
Vetluzhsky Yakov Vasilievich
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Корольков А. И. Христорождественская церковь в С.-Петербурге на Песках. СПб., 1898
Антонов В. В., Кобак А. В. Святыни Санкт-Петербурга: Ист.-церков. энцикл. СПб., 1994 Neoclassicism
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