Храм во имя cвятого Симеона Верхотурского, Orthodox church in Zlatoust, Russia

The Saint Simeon Verkhotursky Temple is a wooden Orthodox church in the station settlement of Zlatoust, on the southern slope of Verkhnevokzalnaya Hill. Between 1902 and 1915 it was repeatedly rebuilt: the building was enlarged, an octagonal dome was added, and a bell tower was constructed. Its carved two-tier iconostasis was valued at 1,500 rubles.

The church was funded by voluntary salary deductions from station workers and private donations. Bishop Anthony (Khrapovitsky) of Ufa and Menzelinsk laid the first stone on 16 December 1901 and consecrated the wooden church on 31 March 1902. Rebuilt between 1902 and 1915 with an octagonal dome and bell tower, it was closed on 6 January 1930 and housed a covered market and a military canteen until 1947.

The church kept a two-tier carved iconostasis valued at 1,500 rubles, and the parish owned a chapel of the Dormition on the Railway Cemetery (1913) and a church of Alexander Nevsky at the Zlatoust prison (1914). Before the Russo-Japanese War, musical evenings were held in the flat of the first rector, priest Lavr Fenelonov, attended by officers of the 214th Mokshan Regiment and its bandmaster Ilya Shatrov.

The church stands in the station settlement on the southern slope of Verkhnevokzalnaya Hill, near the Zlatoust railway station. It was returned to believers on 22 May 1947, and the first rector, Florency Popov, had it ready for services within two months. Some church utensils were given by the city museum on the recommendation of the executive committee.

The church stands on the southern slope of Verkhnevokzalnaya Hill in the station settlement, not in the old town centre. Its first stone was laid on 16 December 1901 by Bishop Anthony (Khrapovitsky) of Ufa and Menzelinsk, who also consecrated it on 31 March 1902. The two-tier carved iconostasis was valued at 1,500 roubles.