Temples of Nizhny Tagil: a brief description, addresses

2024 Author: Miguel Ramacey | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 06:11

Nizhny Tagil is a small modern city in the Sverdlovsk region, which has several places of worship with a rich history. The oldest of them have not survived to this day and are available only when viewing archival photographs. But there are also such Orthodox shrines that have remained unchanged and are a real masterpiece of Russian stone architecture.

Holy Trinity Cathedral

The construction of the church began in 1842, on the site of a small Old Believer chapel. The temple is a three-domed building with a bell tower, made in the Russian-Byzantine style.

In the Soviet years, the temple was destroyed. The domes and the bell were removed, the iconostasis was destroyed and the wall paintings were erased. During the years of communist rule, there were warehouses, workshops and garages.

The building was restored in 1993, and in 2012 the Trinity Church in Nizhny Tagil was given the status of a cathedral.

The church was originally beige andonly in recent decades has it been painted green.

Holy Trinity Cathedral is located at: st. Trudovaya, 3.

Church of Alexander Nevsky

The stone one- altar church was built with donations from the local population in 1862. The church with five onion cupolas is made in the tent type in the Byzantine style.

Repetitive keeled arches, a high tented completion of the central dome and small belfry tents located at the corners give a characteristic and unique look to the temple.

During the civil revolution, the building was damaged by artillery shells, and in 1939 a cinema was opened here. After the war, the walls of the temple were empty and gradually collapsed.

The shrine was returned to Orthodox believers in 1989. Now it is one of the existing churches in Nizhny Tagil.

Address: st. Sovkhoznaya, 5.

Kazan Cathedral

This church was rebuilt from an Old Believer chapel into an Orthodox church in 1847. The three-domed church with onion domes was built in the Russian-Byzantine style and is the main cathedral of the Kazan Monastery.

In addition to the temple itself, there are auxiliary buildings, cells of monks and a church shop on the territory of the monastery. The building of the cathedral has three entrances, above the main of which there is a belfry.

This is the only Orthodox church in Nizhny Tagil that was not persecuted and destroyed during the Soviet era. In 1958 he received the statuscathedral. Today it is a functioning church and its doors are open to all parishioners.

Kazan Temple (Nizhny Tagil) is located at: st. Vyiskaya, 32.

Temple of Sergius of Radonezh

The construction of the temple of Sergius in Nizhny Tagil began in 2001. In 2004, a solemn hoisting of domes onto the temple took place. The church is made in the Russian-Byzantine style with elements of classicism. The prototype for the construction was the Vyysko-Nikolsky temple, which was destroyed in the 1960s.

Professional masters from Moscow worked on the murals of the cathedral under the guidance of the artist V. Pavlov. In the temple there is an icon of St. Sergius with particles of his relics.

Temple of St. Sergius of Radonezh in Nizhny Tagil is located at: st. Metallurgov, 32.