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St. Catherine’s Swedish Church

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

ST. CATHERINE’S SWEDISH CHURCH, located at 1-3 Malaya Konyushennaya St., is an architectural monument. The classical building of the church (architect Y.M. Felten) was erected in 1767-69 for the needs of the Swedish Lutheran community. In 1863-65, it was replaced with a new neo-Romanesque church containing a portal and a rosette window (architect C.K. Andersson), capable of seating 1,200. In 1917, the community numbered nearly 5,200. A school, two orphanages and an almshouse functioned under the care of the church. In 1936, the church was closed and transformed into a gymnasium. Public church services resumed in part of the building in 1991, and by 2002 the church returned to full services. The church gave its name to Shvedsky Lane adjacent to it (the lane is situated between Bolshaya Konyushennaya Street and Malaya Konyushennaya Street).

References: Антонов В. В., Кобак А. В. Святыни Санкт-Петербурга: Ист.-церков. энцикл. СПб., 1996. Т. 3. С. 246-247.

S. V. Boglachev.

Persons

Andersson Carl (Karlovich)
Felten Yury (Georg Friedrich) Matveevich

Addresses

Malaya Konyushennaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 3
Malaya Konyushennaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 1
Shvedsky Lane/Saint Petersburg, city

Bibliographies

Антонов В. В., Кобак А. В. Святыни Санкт-Петербурга: Ист.-церков. энцикл.: В 3 т. СПб., 1994-1996

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Neoclassicism

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1865

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St. Catherine’s Swedish Church. Photo, the early of 1900s.

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Confessions, Non-Orthodox (entry) NON ORTHODOX CONFESSIONS, Christian non-Orthodox churches. From the beginning of the 18th century, St. Petersburg was the centre of foreign confessions in Russia. The most numerous community were the Roman Catholics

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Malaya Konyushennaya Street MALAYA KONYUSHENNAYA STREET (in the 18th century Rozhdestvenskaya Street, in 1918-91 Sofia Perovskaya Street), located between Nevsky Prospect and Shvedsky Lane, laid out in the 1760s as a passageway to the Court Stables (hence the name)

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Swedes SWEDES, an ethnic community forming a part of the St. Petersburg population. Believers practice Lutheranism. The Swedes attempted to take control of the Neva Region from the 13th century onwards (see the Battle of the Neva 1240, Landskrona)

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World of Art, Association WORLD OF ART, an art association. Begun in the mid-1890s by a circle of students, the main body including graduates of K. I. May's Gymnasium, such as Alexander N. Benois, W. F. Nouvel, and D. V. Filosofov, who were later joined by L. S. Bakst, S. P

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