🏛 Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God

Зеленогорск, Приморское ш., 547

A white multi-domed church in the Russian style with a tall bell tower above the Primorskoye Highway — a symbol of Zelenogorsk.

The first wooden Kazan church in Terijoki was built in 1880 by the merchant Andrei Durdin; it burned down in 1907.
The stone church was laid down in 1910 in memory of the 200th anniversary of Peter the Great's capture of Vyborg.
The bell tower with its cross rises 49 metres; the bells weighed more than 9 tonnes, the main one about 5 tonnes.
The main altar was consecrated in 1915 by Archbishop Sergius — the future Patriarch of Moscow.
The icons for the iconostasis were painted by the artist Pavel Rozanov, brother of the famous philosopher.
In 1940 the bell tower was destroyed, and until the late 1980s the church served as a warehouse; in the 1970s it was saved from demolition by Leningrad's chief architect Gennady Buldakov.

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