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St. Peter Church in Lakhta, St.-Petersburg

St. Peter Church in Lakhta, St.-Petersburg, Eastern Orthodox church in Lakhta district, Saint Petersburg, Russia.

St. Peter Church is a wooden tent-roofed Orthodox church in the Russian style, built in 1893–1894 on a granite foundation. It stands on Lakhtinsky Prospect with a bell tower over the entrance and a small belfry above the door. The interior holds a marble-painted iconostasis and a restored altar stained-glass window of the Savior.

The church was founded in 1893 on land and 20,000 rubles donated by Count Vladimir Stenbock-Fermor, and consecrated on 12 August 1894 by Metropolitan Palladius with John of Kronstadt. Closed in 1938, it housed the Zvezda cinema and later a boat-repair cooperative. Returned to the eparchy in 1991, it was fully reconsecrated on 12 June 1994 and restored by 2019.

The church keeps the memory of Peter I, who according to legend saved drowning soldiers and sailors near Lakhta on 1 November 1724; the foundation date of 29 June 1893 was chosen to honour the apostles Peter and Paul. Its patronal feast is celebrated on Peter's Day, 12 July, when the first service was held at the walls in 1990. Venerated items include the temple image of Apostle Peter and an icon of the martyrs Elizabeth and Barbara with relics.

The church stands at Lakhtinsky Prospekt 94, next to the two-storey building of the former parish school and shelter, restored by 2017. The chapel on the Gulf shore, a cast-iron structure on a granite base, marks the legendary site of Peter I's rescue of sailors. Services resumed in 1991; the church is active, so time visits outside services.

A cast-iron chapel on a granite base stands on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, consecrated on 29 June (11 July) 1893, the day the church's foundation stone was laid. It marks the spot where, by legend, Peter I saved drowning sailors and soldiers on 1 (12) November 1724. Its design is by architect V. I. Schaub, who also worked on the church.

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