Chasovnya

Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker at the Yelshansky cemetery in Saratov. In November 1991, with a request to bless the construction of the chapel in the city cemetery in the area of ​​the village. Jelshanka, Saratov, the Diocesan Bishop Archbishop Pimen (Khmelevsky † 1993) was approached by members of the committee of public self-government of the village. Yelshanka. However, permission to design and build a chapel was received only in 1996. On October 22, 1996, the order of founding the chapel church in the name of St. Nicholas and the Miracle Worker was completed. The construction of the temple was completed in 1998. On July 12, 1998, the Archbishop of Saratov and Volsky, Alexander (Timofeev † 2003), performed the rank of Great Consecration of the newly-built church.