Church of St. Konstantin and Elena description and photo - Crimea: Sevastopol (Topic)

St. Konstantin and Elena description and photo - Crimea: Sevastopol. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photos and a map showing the nearest significant objects.

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The Church of the Equal-to-the-Apostles Saints Constantine and Helena is located in the village of Flotskoe (formerly Karan). The temple festival is celebrated on May 21 (June 3).

Church of Sts. Constantine and Helena is a one-nave basilica, decorated with a portico with a triangular pediment. The building is rectangular in plan and covered with a gable roof. The northern and southern walls each have three rectangular windows with triangular sandriks (cornices).

The history of the temple on the outskirts of the city of Sevastopol goes back to the distant Middle Ages, when Crimea was inhabited by 300 thousand Greeks. A small stone church was erected by the Greeks in the middle of the 15th century. In 1778 the Christians of the Crimea were forcibly resettled to the Azov region. As a result, the church was abandoned for more than 60 years. After the annexation of Crimea to Russia, the Balaklava Greek battalion was located in Balaklava itself and the surrounding villages, including in Karani. The temple was renovated and consecrated. During the Crimean War, the church was destroyed, but after its end it was reconstructed with funds donated by parishioners. The re-consecration of the church took place in 1856

In the pre-revolutionary period, a very revered icon of Sts. Constantine and Helena, which previously belonged to the Balaklava Greek battalion. In 1898, there were 197 people in the parish of the church, a priest and a sexton conducted the service, and in 1910 there were more than 400 people in the parish. In the 1920s. the temple was closed. After the end of the Great Patriotic War, its building was used as a club and cinema. In the 1990s. Thanks to the efforts of Archimandrite Augustine, the old church was returned to the faithful, and in 2001 restoration work began. The temple is ranked among the Balaklava St. George Monastery.

Today the Church of Sts. Constantine and Helena is a functioning church where regular services are held.

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