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Church of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos

Church of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos, Russian Orthodox temple in Salzburg, Austria

The Church of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos is a Russian Orthodox church in the Lehen district of Salzburg, built in 1964 to a constructivist design by engineer Evgeny Salpius. The city required a flat roof instead of the planned tented dome, so the building has no onion domes. Inside, a two-tier iconostasis carved in 1970 by E. Teufl's workshop after a sketch by A. M. Bogalits stands in the prayer hall.

The parish traces back to a secret Liturgy served on 7 January 1945 by Archpriest Fyodor Raevsky in the Stakhovich house. After the war the community moved to St. Michael's on Residenzplatz, then to the Parsch camp, where a fire on 6 June 1950 destroyed its church. A plot in Lehen was bought on 29 May 1959, and the present building, designed by engineer Yevgeny Salpius, was consecrated on 26 June 1964.

The parish grew from a refugee community: after 1945 Russians, Serbs and Bulgarians worshipped at St. Michael on Residenzplatz, and the Intercession parish was founded in the Parsh camp. The two-tier iconostasis was carved in E. Teufl's joinery workshop after a sketch by A. M. Bogalits, replacing a temporary one in 1970.

The church stands in the Lehen district near the Salzach, on ground bought in 1959 on a lot cleared by an American air raid. It is a working parish, not a museum, so visits fit around services; the parish received legal status only on 15 February 2013, and a new church has been planned since 2010, so parts of the grounds may be a construction site.

The iconostasis now in the church was carved in E. Teufl's joinery workshop after a sketch by A. M. Bogalits and replaced a temporary one in 1970. The earlier iconostasis had been brought from a side chapel of St. Michael's Church, itself set up in a camp barrack.

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