The Church of Sts. Martyrs Faith, Hope, Love and their Mother Sophia (Vartemyagi Village, Vsevolozhsk District)

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The Church of Sts. Martyrs Faith, Hope, Love and their Mother Sophia (Vartemyagi Village, the Vsevolozhsk District). The stone church was built during 1826-1840 by the architect D.I. Viskonti in the Late Classicism style in an estate of Count A.P. Shuvalov. It was consecrated on 8 August 1840. The church was crowned with the windowed helmet-shaped dome and four small corner cupolas. It was surrounded with porticoes from three sides, a vast semicircular in plan apse was adjoined to the church from the eastern side. A bell tower was built up to the church in 1871. In 1936 the church was closed and that transferred for a community centre. After World War II the church was used for a warehouse of inflammable materials and was hard suffered in the 1960s. In 1990 the tumbledown church was returned to the local parish. In 1993 the church was transferred for using as the city residence of the Convent of St. Ioann in St. Petersburg. After finishing the repair the church was consecrated on 9 July 1996. In the church there are icons of St. Tryphon the Martyr and Blessed Matrona of Moscow with the holy relics fragments. Near the church there are some partly survived headstone of: Countess O.E. Shuvalova, Count V.A. Bobrinsky, Baron A. Meiendorf and others. The new cemetery of the Ioannovsky Convent nuns is located to the East from the church. Shkarovsky, Mikhail Vitalyevich
Bertash, Aleksandr Vitalyevich
Bobrinsky, Vladimir Alekseyevich
Meyendorf, Andrey, baron
Shuvalov, Andrey Petrovich
Shuvalova (nee Beloselskaya-Belozerskaya, Princess), Olga Esperovna, Countess
Visconti, David Ivanovich
Leningrad Oblast, the/Vsevolozhsk District/Vartyemyagi Village
Свято-Иоанновский ставропигиальный женский монастырь / Авт.-сост. М.В. Шкаровский. СПб., 1998., С.238-247