🏛 Holy Trinity Cathedral in Kolpino

Колпино, Пролетарская ул., 2

A cathedral on the high bank of the Izhora; the parish traces its history to a canvas church of 1722 at the plant.

The present cathedral is new: it was built from 2003 to a design by Sergei Kryukov and consecrated on 19 December 2009.
The old 18th-century stone Trinity Cathedral stood elsewhere; it was closed in 1937, made into the Luch cinema and demolished in 1957–1958.
The 53-metre bell tower of the old cathedral was Kolpino's main landmark; Tsarskoselsky Avenue, today Lenin Avenue, was laid out along its axis.
In August 1941 the top of the old cathedral's bell tower was blown up by an NKVD special group.
Since 2013 the cathedral has held a copy of the wonderworking Kolpino icon of St Nicholas; the ancient icon itself vanished after 1937.
Nearby stands the wooden tent-roofed Church of St Nicholas of 1998 — services were held in it while the cathedral was being built.