🏛 Church of the Apostle Peter in Lakhta

Лахтинский пр., 94

An 1894 church in memory of Peter the Great, who rescued drowning sailors off Lakhta in 1724; restored in 2019.

Count Vladimir Stenbock-Fermor gave the land and 20,000 rubles for the church; it was laid down on 29 June 1893.
The wooden tent-roofed church was designed by locals, the architects Vasily Vasilyevich and Vasily Ivanovich Schaub.
On 12 August 1894 (New Style) the church was consecrated by Metropolitan Palladius together with John of Kronstadt.
Some of the icons for the iconostasis were painted by Adolphe Charlemagne.
In 1939 the closed church became the Zvezda cinema and the bell tower was demolished; in the late 1980s motor boats were repaired here.

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