Russian-orthodox church in Gifhorn, Orthodox church in Gifhorn, Germany

St. Nicholas Church in Gifhorn is a wooden building designed as a replica of a Russian Orthodox church from the Vladimir Region. The structure features typical elements like onion domes and an interior fully equipped with Orthodox furnishings and religious artwork.

Horst Wrobel, founder of the Gifhorn Mill Museum, saw the 1765 Church of the Transfiguration from Koslyatyevo (now Polyany) at the Suzdal wooden architecture museum and had it copied on his museum grounds from 1994 to 1996. Patriarch Alexius II visited in 1995; Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad consecrated the church a year later, when the first service was held.

The church is a copy of the Transfiguration Church from Kozlyatyevo, now Polyany, in Vladimir Oblast. Since 2023 it has served as a museum, so the liturgical objects inside — icons, oil lamps, censers, vestments, embroideries, baptismal vessels and Bibles — are displayed rather than used. Before that, clergy of the Berlin and German Diocese of the Moscow Patriarchate celebrated services here.

The church stands on the grounds of the International Wind and Watermill Museum in Gifhorn and has served as a museum since 2023, so visits follow the museum's opening arrangements. The bells in front of the church are the Minden Cathedral's first post-war peal, cast in 1948; they are fixed in a frame and struck rather than swung, following Orthodox custom.

The first post-war bell set of Minden Cathedral, cast in 1948, hangs in front of the church; Horst Wrobel bought it for this purpose. It is fixed motionless in a frame and, following Orthodox custom, is sounded by striking rather than swinging.