Description of the attraction
The Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God in the resort town of Feodosia is an Orthodox church, erected at the beginning of the 20th century. Count Nikolai Heyden, who was the head of the St. Petersburg Kazan Cathedral, in 1887 transferred his dacha "Kafa", located in Feodosia, to the subordination of the Toplovsky St. Paraskevsky Monastery. A little later, the dacha was renamed into the Kazan courtyard of the Toplovsky monastery - this was the only condition of the donor.
The donated territories included a house, a plot of land, vineyards and other buildings. In 1891, a wooden church of the Holy Great Martyr Panteleimon the Healer was built on the transferred site. In 1907, the wooden church of the Toplovsk monastery was dismantled, and in its place the construction of a new stone cathedral in the name of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God began. The author of the project was the local architect G. L. Keila. The cathedral was made in the Russian-Byzantine style. The consecration of the temple took place in 1911.
With the outbreak of the Civil War, the Toplovsky monastery with churches, a courtyard and other buildings was plundered in 1919, and many of its shrines were lost. During the Great Patriotic War, the monastery courtyard was used as a concentration camp for Soviet prisoners of war. During the German occupation, the monastery was opened for the purpose of holding church services for Romanian soldiers. After the entry of Soviet troops into the territory of Feodosia, divine services were resumed in the temple (April 1944). In the 1950s-1960s. the renovation of the temple was carried out with artistic paintings, splendid decoration. Solemn liturgies were also held.
The Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God seems slender, light and tending to the sky. This impression is created by graceful thin columns located at the corners of the building, semicircular endings of the walls, a dome that resembles a helmet of a Russian warrior and a light drum containing ten arched windows. There are three interconnected arches above the entrance. In addition, the cathedral amazes with its grandeur, rich interior decoration and magnificent artistic painting.
