Church of Holy Trinity

Wonderful Temple ☦ built in the middle of the XVIII century. Rector - Fr. Dimitri is a very good and attentive Father!

Holy Trinity Church is one of the most beautiful monuments of religious architecture in Russia of the XIX century. If you have been to Italy, you will be able to fully appreciate the beauty of the Irkutsk Temple. Inside the Church is also huge and beautiful as well as outside. But the main thing is that the Temple is the House of God, a place for prayers of believers and Sacraments.

Not many people.

Behind a beautiful facade, ... there is a business covered by "high spirituality" ... The more problems people have and the hardships of survival, the more successful the churchmen’s business. It's my personal opinion .

The temple was erected in 1778 and since its construction has not undergone significant restructuring and "renovations." This is a rare case for the architectural monument of Irkutsk. The single-storey three-person Trinity Church was built on the wooden site. On July 19, 1763, a stone church arch collapsed during the work. The main temple was completed in 1778 (the lighting ceremony took place on September 22). In the 1930s, the church was closed. On September 28, 1949, in violation of the resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers, the Irkutsk Regional Executive Committee handed over the Trinity Church for the establishment of a planetarium. Currently, under the project of G.G. Oranskoy and B.A. Shutov temple was restored, after reconstruction transferred to the Irkutsk diocese. Baroque style, which came to Russia at the end of the XVII century, immediately acquired a bright Russian peculiarity. A prominent place among the architectural monuments of the Siberian baroque is the Holy Trinity Church. Of the total number of buildings, the church is distinguished by its unusual spatial structure. The composition of the building can be traced to wooden long-layered temples with a wide octagon, which became widespread in the Irkutsk region in the middle of the 18th century. The multi-level bell tower, which slightly exceeds the height of the temple, along with the chapels and the altar is compositionally subordinate to the core. The decoration of the platbands was influenced by the Old Russian architecture (paired, tied columns), Baroque (drawing cartouches), as well as local traditions of window arrangement in multi-stage rectangular niches: clearly traced cornices with a number of profiled crackers, vanes with depressed panels of various geometric shapes.