Description of the attraction
St. Petersburg Trinity Church, located on Obukhovskaya Oborony Avenue, is a federal architectural monument protected by the state. It was designed by the architect N. Lvov. The temple is part of the St. Petersburg Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church and the center of the Nevsky Deanery District. Over the years, the rectors of the church were priests I. Petrov, M. Dobronravin, N. Orlovsky, P. Vinogradov, Smirnov, M. Tsvetkov, P. Strelinsky, V. Kitaev, I. Kolesnikov, archpriests N. Klerikov, V. Bazaryaninov, M. Vertogradsky, V. Spiridonov, L. Dyakonov, M. Smirnov, N. Lomakin, I. Ptitsyn, M. Lavrov, F. Tsybulkin, A. Krylov. Now the rector of the Trinity Church is Archpriest Viktor Golubev.
The Church of the Holy Trinity of the Life-Giving (and this is how its full name sounds) was built from 1785 to 1790. It is also known as Easter cake and Easter. This name was given to the temple due to its unusual appearance, reminiscent of Easter cake and Easter. Prosecutor General A. A. Vyazemsky.
The building of the church is a rotunda crowned with a low dome without a drum, surrounded by 16 columns of the Ionic order. It is colored dark yellow. The columns are decorated with Ionic volutes. The second tier has oval windows. There is a frieze in the dome part. Due to the absence of the drum of the dome, it is somewhat dark in the altar part of the temple. One gets the feeling that it is smaller on the outside than on the inside. The hall, like the dome, is painted blue inside and decorated with Corinthian pilasters. This unique temple was not particularly convenient for services, since there was not enough space for an altar. In the 50s of the 19th century, a narthex was added to the temple.
The bell tower building is a narrow four-sided two-tier pyramid trimmed with metal sheets. In the first tier there is a baptismal room, in the second there is a belfry. The tiers are separated by a cornice. The belfry is designed in a very unusual way: instead of openings in the walls, there are arches, at the bottom of which there is a metal fence, and at the top there is a sandrik. Their thickness is not the same at the bottom and at the top, but increases with the slope of the walls. Above the belfry, on 4 sides, there are depicted clock dials, on which the time is different.
Trinity Church "Kulich and Easter" was among the churches that worked during the Soviet era. It was closed in March 1938. Then all the exported values, among which was the unique icon of the Holy Trinity, donated by the peasants in 1824, disappeared without a trace. However, in 1946, the Trinity Church was again given to the parishioners. The solemn consecration on this occasion was performed by Metropolitan of the Leningrad and Novgorod Diocese Grigory Chukov.
To date, all the relics in the church are brought in. So, the blue and gold iconostasis of the mid-18th century was transferred from the Annunciation Church on Vasilyevsky Island, the especially revered image of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow" was transferred in June 1946 by the Transfiguration Cathedral, the icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker was given in December 1947 by the Piskarev sisters from Kolpino, who preserved it during the Great Patriotic War.
The name of Admiral A. V. is associated with the Trinity Church. Kolchak, who was baptized here, about which the corresponding entry in the register of births has been preserved.
In 2010, Sberbank of Russia issued 1,000 copies of a commemorative silver coin with a face value of 3 rubles. It depicts the Church of the Holy Trinity.
