🏛 Serafimovskaya Church and Cemetery

Серебряков пер., 1 (Серафимовское кладбище)

A wooden Church of St Seraphim of Sarov from 1906, never closed in Soviet times; around it is a cemetery with Siege burials.

The church, designed by Alexander Baranovsky, was laid down on 25 July 1906 and was already built by the end of October.
It was consecrated on 1 March 1907 in the name of Seraphim of Sarov, after whom the cemetery is also named.
When news came that the Siege was lifted, the church bells rang for two days.
The main shrine is an icon of Seraphim with particles of his relics and of the stone on which he prayed for a thousand days and nights.
The interior has hardly changed since the opening; the mosaics on the west facade appeared in 1987.

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