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      🏛 Intercession Old Believer Church

      пр. Александровской Фермы, 20

      An Old Believer church of 1895–1896 — a fragment of old Kupchino among the panel blocks.

      Intercession Old Believer Church
      © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
      Intercession Old Believer Church
      © Peterburg23 · CC BY 3.0
      • The church was built in 1895–1896 to a design by V. A. Kolyankovsky as the Church of Alexander Nevsky on the military section of the Preobrazhenskoye Cemetery.
      • In December 1937 the long-serving rector Alexey Chuzhbovsky was arrested and shot, and services stopped.
      • From the mid-1930s until 1982 the Old Believers of Leningrad had no church and prayed in secret in apartments.
      • The abandoned church was handed over to the Old Believers in spring 1983 and consecrated on 25 December in the name of the Intercession.

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      • Kupchino: Švejk, quarries and the Izhora Line
      • Kupchino: Quarry Ponds, a Pillbox and an Old Believer Church

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