St. George church in Feodosia, Armenian church in Feodosia, Ukraine
St. George Church is a 14th-century Armenian church at 32 Nakhimova Street in Feodosia, built in 1385 as the catholicon of the St. George Monastery. Its elongated rectangular plan combines an old eastern section of rubble masonry with semicircular arched vaults and 19th-century central and western parts of dressed stone. The central part carries a dome on an octagonal drum in Russian architectural tradition; windows and doors are arrow-shaped, and the building is plastered inside and out.
The church was founded in 1385 and ranks among the oldest religious structures in Crimea. It preserves connections to Armenian Apostolic traditions and reflects centuries of faith practice in the region.
The church is closed and not used for worship. In the past, a festival was held at the monastery on St. George's Day, attended by Armenians from nearby and distant villages as well as Tatars. The Armenian community received the building in 1998 and planned restoration work in 2006.
The church stands at 32 Nakhimova Street, west of the old outer defence ring. It has been closed for worship for decades and is in a neglected state, though ways in exist; the Armenian community planned restoration work in 2006 that never began. The cemetery under its walls was slated for construction in December 2019, and in 2023 the Supreme Court of Crimea returned the upper plot to the city and ordered illegal buildings demolished.
The church appears in several scenes of the 1982 Soviet film Sportloto-82; the house of the main character's aunt stands nearby at 1 Pryamaya Street, later rebuilt. The building was closed in 1921 and returned to the Armenian community of Feodosia in 1998.
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