🏛 Dormition Church on Malaya Okhta

Малоохтинский пр., 52

A church by the old Malookhtinskoye cemetery — one of the few surviving village graveyards of Okhta.

The present church was built in 1996–2001 in memory of the Siege and is called the Siege Church.
It stands on the site of the Church of Mary Magdalene (1778–1781), closed in 1938.
During the Siege the dead were buried in mass graves in this area.
In 2004, while mosaics were being installed, the wind brought down the scaffolding — the rector Viktor Yeroshenko was killed and is buried by the church.
Beside the church stand a monument to the children of Beslan (2007) and a monument to Metropolitan Veniamin (2009).

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