Description of the attraction
One of the oldest churches in the city of Magnitogorsk is the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. The temple is located in the southeast of the city, on the left bank of the Ural River, at the entrance to Magnitogorsk.
In the 30s. all the city's churches were destroyed. The construction of new churches, including the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, began only after the end of the war. The temple was erected in 1946. The initiator of its construction was G. I. Nosov is the director of the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works.
Today the temple is a wooden three-nave church with a hipped bell tower above the entrance and a massive onion dome located above the eastern part. The building of the reconstructed shop served as the basis for the temple. The author of this project was the architect Mikhail Nikolaevich Dudin, who since 1946 was the chief architect of the city of Magnitogorsk.
However, the fate of the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker was not easy. In 1960, it was closed, the reason for which was the accusation of the rector of the church, Father John, that he drowned a baby during the baptism ceremony. Witnesses of that time claim that the baby died before the time of baptism. His parents knew that the soul of only a baptized child can become an angel, so they, without saying anything to Father John, brought him to be baptized. Perhaps the rector of the church did not notice the death of the child or simply succumbed to the persuasions of the parents. What actually happened then is still a mystery. But as a result, the abbot of the temple was sent to prison, where he died. After the closure, the church building housed a planetarium, and then a warehouse.
The temple was reopened only in 1990, at the same time adult and children's Sunday schools began to operate under it. In 1995, the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker was reconstructed and painted.
