🏛 Ilyinskaya Church in Porokhovye

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An 18th-century rotunda church built for the workers of the Okhta Gunpowder Factory.

The present church was built in 1782–1785 to a design by Nikolai Lvov; from 1717 wooden chapels and churches had stood on this spot.
The rotunda is ringed by 16 Ionic columns, and the pillarless hall inside is painted sky blue with an image of Christ in the centre.
In 1805–1806 Fyodor Demertsov added a heated Alexander Nevsky side chapel with a spired bell tower.
In 1938 the cathedral was closed and given to civil air defence, in 1974 the building burned, and in 1988 it was returned to the diocese.
The altar screen holds the Royal Doors of 1762 from the iconostasis of the Great Church of the Winter Palace.

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