Description of the attraction
After visiting the Patriarch of Moscow Alexy II with the participants of the Stalingrad battle of Mamayev Kurgan in June 1993, the idea arose of building a temple on the memorial land. The place allocated for the temple is located next to the mass grave of several thousand soldiers, two hundred meters from the Motherland monument.
The foundation stone of the church began on May 9, 2002 after the annual (since 1997) procession with the icon of the Mother of God. The funds for the construction of the temple came exclusively from donations from the population, and in 2004, on Pokrov Day, the main dome was installed. In 2005, on May 9, the temple was consecrated and opened to the public.
In 2006, the Cathedral of All Saints received a unique gift in the form of three handmade icons made by Astrakhan craftsmen using ancient technology. The interior of the church is decorated with golden chandeliers and an iconostasis painted by the Lithuanian icon painter Vladimir Savelyev.
The white-stone temple is 38 meters high and is visible in almost any area of Volgograd. Helmet-shaped domes made of titanium alloy, ordered in the Urals, symbolize the heroes guarding the Russian land, as if complementing the memorial complex to the Heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad, bringing a particle of the Orthodox faith to the main height of Russia.
It is planned to build two belfries near the temple, one of which will have the majestic Peace Bell. In the meantime, the ringing of seven bells cast in Voronezh, located next to the temple, is heard over the Mamayev Kurgan.
