Chapel of St. Nicholas description and photo - Ukraine: Nikolaev (Topic)

Chapel of St. Nicholas description and photo - Ukraine: Nikolaev. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photos and a map showing the nearest significant objects.

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In 2004 in Nikolaev on pl. Lenin's chapel was founded by St. Nicholas. The idea to build a chapel in honor of the patron saint of the city - St. Nicholas - belonged to the entrepreneur G. Zhiltsov. After the erection of the walls of the chapel, further construction was suspended due to the financial difficulties of the entrepreneur.

In 2007, another businessman of Nikolaev - I. Danishevsky, having received the blessing of Archbishop Pitirim, continued construction. But it was no longer a chapel, but a temple - a place where the service of the Orthodox Church is held - the Divine Liturgy. In accordance with the new architectural plan, two previously built walls were demolished, a vestibule was built and the altar part was expanded. Gold leaf was used for gilding the crosses, and the dome is covered with titanium nitrite, popularly called "blue golden light". The specialists worked on the dome part for about two years. And a year later, in March, the dome and the cross were installed at an 18-meter height using a special crane.

In the course of construction, an idea came up to decorate the windows with colored stained-glass windows. On three sides of the church there are stained glass windows depicting scenes from the life of St. Nicholas. Above the paintings by the "golden light" will be inscribed phrases taken from the akathist to the Saint. The creation and installation of the iconostasis took about a year. For this, marble of three colors was used, delivered from Greece and Spain. The statues of the Archangels - Gabriel, Michael, Uriel and Raphael - adorning the temple from four sides, have become an excellent architectural solution.

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