Presentation Church, Petrozavodsk, Orthodox church building in Petrozavodsk, Russia.
The Presentation Church is a stone Orthodox church with two domes and a bell tower, built in 1781 on a diorite rock by the Logmozero Strait in Petrozavodsk's Solomenskoye district. It stands on the site of a men's monastery abolished in 1764, next to the stone Peter and Paul Church built by the same merchant, I. Ya. Kononov.
The building was established in 1781 during a period of growing Orthodox Christianity in the Karelia region. It has endured through different political periods of Russian history and remains standing today.
The Solomenskoye churches kept a white linen vestment said to have been embroidered by Tsarevna Sophia Alekseyevna, vestments made by Tsaritsa Praskovya Fyodorovna, and bent chairs for the altar clergy made by Peter I. Before the revolution an old chapel southwest of the church held paintings by Italian masters on biblical subjects.
The church stands on a diorite rock above the Logmozero strait in the Solomenskoye district, reached from the city centre by suburban transport. It is an active parish, so visits fit around services. The site is on uneven rock, and the restored building reopened only in 2003.
The church stands on a diorite rock by the Logmozero strait, and it was built in 1781 with money from the St Petersburg merchant I. Ya. Kononov on the site of a men's monastery abolished in 1764. It was closed in 1931 and re-consecrated only in 2003, after restoration to designs by N. V. Kuspak and engineer F. V. Yefremov.
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