Saint John the Almoner Church, Orthodox church in Otradnoye, Russia.
Saint John the Almoner Church occupies the former club building of the Leningrad Mast Impregnation Plant, handed to the parish in 1997 on Lenin Street in Otradnoye. A bell tower was added and its cross consecrated on 24 November 2003, funded entirely by parishioners' donations. The church belongs to the Shlisselburg Deanery of the Tikhvin Diocese.
Before the revolution Otradnoye had three churches, all later destroyed. In 1997 the parish received the empty building of the former club of the Leningrad mast-impregnation plant, and church life resumed in the town. On 24 November 2003 a cross was consecrated for the newly built bell tower, funded entirely by parishioners' donations, and raised the next day.
The church keeps a relic of Saint John the Almoner, Patriarch of Alexandria, given on 17 February 2008 with the blessing of Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad. A Sunday school, a school for Orthodox parents, a library and pilgrimage trips are run by the parish. A chapel of Saint George is attached to the church, beside the Nevsky Porog monument.
The church stands on Lenin Street, about 250 metres from the Ivanovskaya railway platform. The chapel of Saint George the Victorious, attached to the parish, is next to the Nevsky Porog monument. The grounds are level and reachable on foot from the platform.
The church occupies the former club building of the Leningrad Mast Impregnation Plant, handed to the parish in 1997. On 17 February 2008, with the blessing of Metropolitan Kirill, it received a particle of the relics of Saint John the Almoner, Patriarch of Alexandria.
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