Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in the village of Belogorka description and photos - Russia - Leningrad region: Gatchinsky district (Topic)

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The Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker is located in the village of Belogorka, Gatchina District, Leningrad Region. It was built in 1904-1906. The architect was S.I. Ovsyannikov.

The temple stood on the territory of the estate "Belogorka" and was a house church of the landowner Ye.A. Fomina. The famous St. Petersburg philanthropist and merchant A.G. Eliseev.

Since 1910, the Nikolsky Church was assigned to the Orthodox parish of the Belogorsk estate and the villages of Izvara, Novo-Siverskaya and Kezevo. The feast day of the church - December 19 - the day of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker.

The first and only rector of the Church of St. Nicholas was priest John Sazhin, and the duties of deacon were performed by Vladimir Dubovitsky. For some time, priest Nikolai Smirnov, psalm-reader John Ledonitsky served here, and Fyodor Vasiliev, a peasant from the village of Novo-Siverskaya, was elected the church headman.

Not far from the church, a two-story wooden priest's house was erected and the Belogorsk public school was formed. The parish of St. Nicholas Church was small. In the "Metric Book" dating back to 1909, it is said that 89 newborns, 22 couples of marriage, 27 dead people were registered in the church. Sacred vessels, valuable icons, books were kept in the Nikolsky Church. Some of the things were donated by parishioners. The temple was decorated with 12 large and small bells.

Divine services in the temple were conducted until 1936. Then it was closed and used as an agricultural warehouse. At the same time, the rector of the church, the priest Ioann Sazhin was arrested and sent to one of the northern camps. Nothing is known about his further fate. In the early 1930s, Deacon Vladimir Dubovitsky moved to serve in the Leningrad St. Nicholas Cathedral of the Epiphany. A little later, during the years of the blockade, he rendered great assistance in the defense of the city, and in 1943 he was awarded the medal "For the Defense of Leningrad". As an archpriest, he became the closest associate of Metropolitan Alexy. The grave of father Vladimir Dubovitsky is located in St. Petersburg, at the Volkovsky cemetery.

Before the Second World War, all the bells from the Nikolsky Church were thrown down, and its interior was destroyed. Some of the valuable icons were taken to Leningrad and donated to existing churches. In the post-war period, in 1966, by the decision of the local party organization, the Nikolskaya Church was reconstructed under the Belogorsk House of Culture. The bell tower at the temple was destroyed, and the interior was completely reconstructed.

In 1993, the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker was transferred to the Orthodox parish of the village of Belogorka. From 1993 to the present, the church has been restored by the parish.

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