Church of the Saviour, Orthodox church in Tyumen, Russia
The Church of the Saviour is an Orthodox church in Tyumen featuring facades in the Siberian Baroque style with polished pilasters and tiered designs. These ornamental elements and traditional motifs create a distinctive appearance that reflects the architectural traditions of the region.
The stone church was founded on 1 July 1796, though a memorial plaque wrongly gives 1794. The lower winter church was consecrated in 1798 to the Tikhvin Mother of God, and the upper church in 1819 to the Saviour Not Made by Hands. In 1930 it was closed and briefly used as a prison; after a failed demolition attempt in 1932 it served as an archive and library.
The church's main altar honours the Image of the Saviour Not Made by Hands, which gave the church and the nearby street their names. Since the 1650s, townspeople carried the venerated icon in an annual procession to the village of Kamenka. A one-class Saviour and Archangel parish school opened at the church on 18 February 1893.
The church stands at Lenin Street 43, at the corner with Chelyuskintsev Street in central Tyumen. Since 1930 it has served as an archive, a library and storage for the Tyumen Local Historical Museum, so access depends on the museum's current use of the building. A memorial plaque on the facade gives 1794 as the year of foundation, but the stone church was actually laid in 1796.
The builders and oldest clergymen of the stone church were buried in vaults arranged inside the building itself. A memorial plaque on the facade gives 1794 as the founding year, but the cornerstone was laid on 1 July 1796.
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