Saint Andrew Church, Baroque church in Tobolsk, Russia

Saint Andrew Church is a Baroque building in Tobolsk that showcases regional interpretations of European architectural styles. The stone structure with its ornate facade represents an important example of religious architecture in the region.

Construction of this stone building began in 1744 when Tobolsk became a center of Russian expansion into Siberia. This period marked a turning point as the region gained new importance for the Russian state.

The parish ran a church school, and after the 1917 revolution the community was dissolved. In 2001 the club "Dobraya Volya" asked Archbishop Dimitri to revive the church; priest Vadim Bazylev was put in charge and a prayer room was fitted under the bell tower. Services resumed weekly in 2013, and Anna Kazantseva's mixed choir became Tobolsk's best parish choir.

The building is accessible to visitors and displays religious objects and interior architectural features. Plan time to examine the details carefully and understand how the structure is organized.

The bell tower was rebuilt in 1806 after cracks appeared, and the replacement was deliberately smaller than the original. A parish school also operated at the church, and a stone fence went up around it in 1818. Worship resumed only in 2013, after a prayer room had been set up in the porch beneath the bell tower.