The Church of Sainted Hierach Nicholas the Wonderworker and St. Tsarina Alexandra, Great Martyr (Ushaki Village, Tosno District)

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The Church of Sainted Hierach Nicholas the Wonderworker and St. Tsarina Alexandra, Great Martyr (Ushaki Village, Tosno District). The church was built during 1902-1908 nearby the road Saint Petersburg - Moscow in the memoty of the wedding and coronation of Emperor Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Fiodorovna. At the same time the parish was organized (earlier the village was included in the Tosno parish). The design of the red brick Russian style church, crowned with one dome, with a bell tower over the porch was done by the architect V.A. Shreter. Three chapels, two ones in Ushaki Village and one chapel in Ryabovo village, were attached to the church. The church did not work from 1938. It was closed on 29 May 1941 and given for a "cultural establishment". The church was opened in autumn 1941 by archpriest Pyetr Zharov (he was arrested and condemned in 1944). It worked until 1943. In 1945 it was closed. In the middle of the 1990s the church was returned to belivers, publicc worships were resumed. In the early 2000s the church was suffered from a fire, now the restoration work is done. A village cemetery is survived nearby the church. Shkarovsky, Mikhail Vitalyevich
Alexandra Fyodorovna, Empress
Nicholas II, Emperor
Schreter, Victor Aleksandrovich
Zharkov, Pyotr Ivanovich
Leningrad Oblast, the/Tosno District/Ryabovo Urban Settlement
Leningrad Oblast, the/Tosno District/Ushaki Settlement
Земля Невская Православная: Краткий церковно-исторический справочник / Науч. ред. В.В. Антонов. СПб., 2006.