Description of the attraction
The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the city of Vladivostok is located along Svetlanskaya Street. The foundation stone of the Assumption Church on the slope of the hill (Pushkinskaya) took place in June 1861. It was the first religious building in the city. The construction of the temple was carried out by the soldiers of the detachment of the 3rd company of the 4th line battalion living in the city of Vladivostok. The divine consecration of the temple was planned to be held in 1862 for the feast of the Annunciation, but due to the illness of the hieromonk, the ceremony had to be postponed to April. The temple was small: 19 m long and 8.5 m wide. In appearance, the temple looked like an ordinary log house and only a wooden cross above the gable roof indicated the purpose of this building.
In August 1876, shortly before the feast of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos, not far from the existing church, a new church was laid - the Dormition Cathedral, designed by V. Shmakov. However, the construction was stopped. After some time, in 1886, a new project of the cathedral was ready, the author of which was the architect Miller. The solemn consecration of the cathedral took place at the end of 1889. The temple accommodated about a thousand worshipers. The height of the main dome was 35 m. In January 1899, this cathedral received the status of a cathedral.
In 1932, the Assumption Cathedral was closed, and in 1938 it was completely destroyed. A residential building was built on the foundation left from the cathedral.
In 1997, the city authorities decided to transfer to the Orthodox Church the former building of the cathedral house, which was previously part of the complex of the destroyed cathedral. Even before the revolution, this building was used as a treasury, a library, a recreation room for the clergy, utility rooms, and later as a DOSAAF school.
The rector of the reviving parish, Archimandrite Sergei (Chashin), put a lot of effort into making the Church of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos a real adornment not only of Vladivostok, but of the entire Primorsky diocese. In 1997, the first service was held in the temple.
In 2001, the church was crowned with domes and crosses, and on the occasion of Easter 2002 a three-tiered iconostasis was installed here. In 2004, the walls of the church were decorated with amazing paintings on the Gospel stories. In April 2006, the solemn consecration of the church in honor of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos took place.
