Saint Paul's Lutheran Church, Lutheran church in Pushkinskaya Street, Vladivostok, Russia.
Saint Paul's Lutheran Church is a red brick building in Brick Gothic style, designed by architect Georg Junghändel and completed in 1907 at Pushkinskaya Street 14. Its interior features a brick floor sealed with oil, stained glass windows including a Trinity scene in the apse, and two organs, the second donated from Germany. The church seats 220 and has a bell tower with three bells cast by Bachert of Karlsruhe.
In 1878 the Russian German Otto Rein moved from Alaska to Vladivostok, bought land and gave it to the Lutheran community, which built a wooden church there. In 1907 the German architect Georg Junghändel built the present brick church, funded largely by the trading firm Kunst und Albers, whose director Adolph Dattan long led the church council. Closed by the authorities in 1935, the building was returned to the congregation on 16 September 1997.
The church represents the early German community in Vladivostok, including military officers, scientists, and merchants who made this city their home. Its design and interior details show the connection these residents maintained with their Central European heritage.
The church sits on Pushkinskaya Street in central Vladivostok and is easily reached on foot from downtown areas. Visitors can explore the interior and may attend organ concerts that take place throughout the year.
The building served as the Pacific Fleet's Military History Museum from 1950 to 1997, not 1990. At the entrance stood museum cannons and a T-18 tank, and a bust of Lenin occupied the place of the altar. The bricks carry the stamp "Ziegelwerk Hans Mueller Saargemuend", and in 1997 Germany listed the church as a monument of German culture abroad.
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