MPEÕK Sillamäe Jumalaema Kaasani Ikooni Kogudus

CHURCH OF THE ICON OF KAASAN ICON OF SILLAMÄE Sanctification of the Church: On July 29, 1995 by Archbishop Kornelius of Tallinn and of Estonia At the end of the nineteenth century, the current Sillamäe town formed a ski resort, which became very popular amongst the St. Petersburg intelligentsia. The captives of the capital initiated the idea of ​​establishing a small Orthodox church. At the blessing of Arseni (Brjantsev), Archbishop of Riga and Miitavs, a building committee was formed, led by priest A. Belavin, and the collection of donations began. 13 thousand donated rubles were donated to the lion's share - 8 thousand rubles - the city's victim of honor, N. Borodulin. Building materials were purchased in the winter of 1897 and the St. Petersburg civil engineer A. Montago drafted a church project. In April 1898, the church was officially crowned as the cornerstone of the church, and the day of celebration, by the 12th of July, was completed. The church was consecrated to the icon of the goddess of Kazan by the sacred bishop Agafangel (Preobrazhensky) of Riga and Miita in the heat of the six priests. The church was built of local limestone and lined with bricks inside. The sacred images of Iconostasis wrote nuns of the Novodevich monastery of the Uppers of St. Petersburg on the zinc-plated monastery. The altar savior's crown jewel was made of colored glass. There were cachets in the sanctuary, the floor was covered with mosaic tiles, carved sculpture decorated with lace.