Description of the attraction
The Church of St. Michael of Chernigov on Tonky Cape in the city of Gelendzhik is one of the city's attractions.
The collection of donations for the construction of this temple began in 1910. In the same year, a construction plan was drawn up, the author of which was the architect Academician V. Pokrovsky, who worked in the neo-Russian architectural style. The project of the temple was approved by the emperor Nicholas II himself. The construction of the church was carried out under the direction of the architect S. Kallistratov and was completed in 1913. On September 22 of that year, the solemn consecration of the temple took place.
In the post-revolutionary period, the chapel-church was used for other purposes. Initially, it was used as a club, then as an electrical substation, and after the war, it became useless to anyone. The abandoned temple began to gradually collapse. And only in 1992, during the inventory of buildings of historical and cultural heritage, all pre-revolutionary Orthodox churches, including the church-chapel, were included in the lists of architectural monuments.
In 1995, a land plot with a total area of 0.6 hectares with a half-destroyed church building was given to the courtyard of the Chernigov Skete of the Holy Trinity Sergius Lavra. After that, the restoration of the church was carried out. Unfortunately, during the renovation work, the original architectural design of the facades was significantly lost, the proportions of the tent were also changed, the interior decoration was made anew and the iconostasis was installed.
Currently, the Church of Mikhail Chernigovsky on Tonky Cape in Gelendzhik is a small unplastered brick building. Services are regularly held in the church.
