🏛 Church of St Onuphrius the Great

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Anapa’s oldest Orthodox church, founded right after the Turkish fortress was taken.

The church was founded on the orders of Nicholas I in 1830 and completed by 1837.
It was dedicated to St Onuphrius the Great because Russian troops took Anapa on his feast day, 12 June 1828.
In September 1837 Nicholas I attended a prayer service here when he visited Anapa.
The church was destroyed in the Crimean War; the present stone building was consecrated in 1874.
In 1964 the church was closed, its domes and bell tower were removed and the building was given to the House of Pioneers.
The church was returned to believers in 1991 and restored by the late 1990s.

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