House of the Hodegetria Church, Barnaul, building in Barnaul, Russia

The House of the Hodegetria Church is the surviving church hotel building of the dismantled Hodegetria Church in Barnaul, a structure altered by later reconstructions and now occupied by shops. The church itself, dismantled in 1935, was a two-story stone building with a green-painted iron roof, funded by merchant I. Purtov and completed in 1815.

A wooden church built in 1759 stood at the start of Moscow Lane. In 1795 merchant I. Purtov funded a stone replacement, completed in 1815 as a two-storey building with a green-painted iron roof. The church was dismantled in 1935; only a public garden and the altered former church hotel building remain.

The church was called the "merchant's church" because it stood by the Trade Square and its churchwardens long came from the Sukhov merchant family. By 1914 it drew about 1,300 parishioners and ran a women's parish school and a literacy school. The building was dismantled in 1935; only the square and the altered church hotel, now shops, remain.

The church itself was dismantled in 1935, so there is no building to enter. What remains is the former church estate: a public square (skver) and the altered church hotel building, now occupied by shops. Look for these at the start of what was Moscow Lane, today Lenin Avenue, near the former Trade Square.

The church that stood here was dismantled in 1935, yet the plot kept its name: the House of the Hodegetria Church. What survives is the former church hotel, rebuilt beyond recognition and now occupied by shops, plus a public garden on the old church grounds. The regional heritage listing covers this remaining building, not a standing church.