The church of St. Catherine, the Great Martyr (Murino Village, Vsevolozhsk District)

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The church of St. Catherine, the Great Martyr (the Vsevolozhsk District, Murino Village, 21 Kooperativnaya Street). The church was built during 1786-1790 in the estate of Murino of the Counts Vorontsovs in the memory about Countes Ye.A. Vorontsova died in 1784. It was built to the design of the architect N.A. Lvov. Traditions of the Classicism and elements of the Old Russian architecture are combined in the church image. Two semicircular apses side adjoined the main cubic structure. It is crowned with the wooden octahedral tier of belfry and the rotunda with a colonnade of the Corinthian order is crowned with a saucer dome and a cross. The entrance is designed with a colum portal, a colonnade and caissons are use in the interior. Icons for the iconostasis,semicircular in plane, were painted by V.L. Borovikovsky. The church was consecrated on 17 February 1790. The parich included: Ruchyi Village (there was a chapel in it), Novaya Village, Ribatskaya Village, Bugri Village. From 3 May 1938 the church did not work , it was officially closed on 22 July 1941. From August 1941 the church was used as an observation post and for placing evacuees. In 1944 the church was given to the Pargolovo department of the firm "Zagotpunkt" ("Storage Centre") and from 1958 it was used for a warehouse, in the 1970s it was used as an experimental sculpture - production workshop. In 1968 the Vsevolozhsk District Council made an unsuccessful attempt to take the church out of the state protection and demolish. In June 1988 the church was returned to belivers, on 6 December it was consecrated by Metropolitan Aleksy (Ridiger) who presented the Icon of St. Catherine to the church (now it is the church sanctuary icon). In 1989 a cross was set on the dome and a cross was erected behind the altar in the memory of priests, deacons and parishioners perished in the 1930s. In 1997 the sanctuary screen was restored. The chapel (built in 1882) was returned to the parish in 1998 and restored. The mosaic icon of St. Catherine with a particle of the holy relics made in a workship of the Frolovs, the icon of St. Panteleimon, the only survived icon from the former decoration of the church, are the church objects of worship. Shkarovsky, Mikhail Vitalyevich
Bertash, Aleksandr Vitalyevich
Alexis II (Ridiger Aleksey Mikhailovich), patriarch
Borovikovsky, Vladimir Lukich
Lvov, Nikolay Aleksandrovich
Vorontsova, Elizaveta Romanovna, Countess
Historical Toponyms/Bugri, Village
Leningrad Oblast, the/Vsevolozhsk District/Murino Settlement/Kooperativnaya Street
Historical Toponyms/Novaya, Village
Historical Toponyms/Ruchyi, Village
Historical Toponyms/Rybatskaya, Village
Памятники архитектуры Ленинграда. Л., 1971, 279-280
Церковь Святой Великомученицы Екатерины в Мурино. СПб, 1998, 279-280