Kazansky sobor, Togliatti, Orthodox church in Tolyatti, Russia
Kazansky Sobor is an Orthodox church in Tolyatti featuring multiple domes characteristic of traditional Russian Orthodox architecture. The interior displays religious wall paintings and decorative elements typical of Orthodox design.
The parish dates to 15 February 1955, when a altar in honour of the Kazan Icon was consecrated in a prayer house built after the flooding of old Stavropol destroyed the Trinity Cathedral in 1953. In the late 1960s the rector Yevgeny Zubovich obtained permission to add a bell tower. A brick church replaced the prayer house in 1985, and Archbishop Ioann (Snychev) consecrated its main altar on 6 August 1987.
The church keeps the name of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, whose feast days are 21 July and 4 November. On Sunday evenings an akathist to the Mother of God is sung before the locally venerated icon, and on Thursday evenings an akathist to St Nicholas is read. A Sunday school teaches Scripture, Church Slavonic and church singing.
The church stands at Proyezd Vavilovoy 2 in Tolyatti, Samara Oblast. Services are held daily, with two liturgies on Sundays and feast days; on Sunday evenings an akathist to the Mother of God is sung before the venerated icon, and on Thursday evening one to St Nicholas. Visitors should dress modestly and keep quiet during worship.
The church keeps two reliquaries: one holds 71 particles of relics of the Kiev-Pechersk saints, the other 61 particles of Optina elders and other venerated saints. A wooden icon of Saint Mitrofan of Voronezh contains a particle of his relics, and a wooden "Burning Bush" icon holds relics of the Bethlehem infants.
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