Chapel of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia description and photos - Crimea: Yalta (Topic)

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In 1881, a wooden chapel was erected on this site in memory of Alexander II, the Russian emperor. The foundation stone was consecrated by Archbishop Guriy (Karpov) of Tauride and Simferopol.

The project was completed in 1881 in the month of March. The building was in the style of northern Old Russian chopped architecture, with carved wooden elements decorated with rich ornaments, with an iron cross-shaped hipped roof. The entrance to the chapel was located on the side of the embankment, and on the other three sides the walls were decorated with barred cross-shaped windows. The chapel was crowned with a dome - an onion on a low drum. The construction of the chapel was completed in 1881 on 23 July. Simultaneously with the construction, a number of images were ordered and purchased by the church building committee. The icons were made in special Russian icon workshops. Some of them were presented as gifts. Initially, the chapel was located on wooden piles, but as a result of numerous destruction as a result of the impact of the sea surf, a stone foundation was made under it. The building was fenced by a carved wooden picket fence.

Unfortunately, after the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral was built, interest in this chapel did not fade away from the parishioners who actively attended it. The chapel from the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral was served. The chapel on the Embankment stood for more than half a century, but it was closed in 1932 and then dismantled as an unnecessary object.

In 2006, on July 17, during the commemoration of the Holy Royal Martyrs on the Yalta Embankment by the Orthodox Church, the site was consecrated for the construction of a new chapel in the name of the Cathedral of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia. On September 26, 2009, the already built chapel was consecrated by the Metropolitan of Simferopol and Crimean Lazar.

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