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SS. Simon and Anna Church


Categories / Architecture/Architectural Monuments/Religious Architecture (see also Religion.Church)
Categories / Religion. Church/Places of Worship (see also Architecture and Urban Planning)

SS. SIMON AND ANNA CHURCH, located at 46 Mokhovaya Street. An architectural monument, one of the oldest religious buildings in St. Petersburg. The church was constructed in 1731-34 (architect M. G. Zemtsov) in style of the Petrine Baroque with the elements of Old Russian architecture. It was located on the site of a wooden church of 1712-14. The building had three altars and a high belfry of 47 metres. The main building had a high illuminated dome drum, crowned with a cupola with an intricate pattern. The iconostasis was done by engraver K. Gan and icons painters A. M. Matveev and V. I. Vasilevsky. In 1803-08, a sacristy and a chapel were attached to the building by architect M. P. Vyborov. Until 1802, the church had belonged to the Imperial Court. In 1869-72, it was extended and renovated (architect G. I. Winterhalter). The Icon of Our Lady the Three-Handed, dating to the early 18th century, now held in St. Nicholas Cathedral, was especially revered. The Poor Aid Society that kept an orphanage and a hospital functioned here from 1868. In 1938, the church was closed down, and its property and decor were pillaged. The building was turned into a storehouse. In 1951-54, the building was restored, and in the 1980s housed a meteorological museum. In 1991, the building was returned to the faithful, and in 1995 consecrated anew. From the name of the church came the former name of Belinskogo Street - Simeonovskaya Street.

References: Камнев И. Церковь свв. прр. Симеона Богоприимца и Анны Пророчицы, что в Моховой улице в С.-Петербурге. СПб., 1913; Антонов В. В., Кобак А. В. Святыни Санкт-Петербурга: Ист.-церков. энцикл. СПб., 1994. Т. 1. С. 223-225.

V. V. Antonov.

Persons
Gan Konrad
Matveev Andrey Matveevich
Vasilevsky Vasily Ivanovich
Vyborov Mikhail Pavlovich
Winterhalter Georgy (Egor) Ivanovich
Zemtsov Mikhail Grigorievich

Addresses
Belinskogo St./Saint Petersburg, city
Mokhovaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 46

Bibliographies
Камнев И. Церковь свв. прр. Симеона Богоприимца и Анны Пророчицы, что в Моховой улице в С.-Петербурге. СПб., 1913
Антонов В. В., Кобак А. В. Святыни Санкт-Петербурга: Ист.-церков. энцикл. СПб., 1994

The subject Index
Baroque
St. Nicholas' Naval Cathedral

Chronograph
1731


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