The Dormition Old Believer Church on Suetinskaya Street was a church of the Belokrinitsa Old Believer community of Nizhny Novgorod that existed from 1912 to 1965. It was built with funds from the city mayor Sirotkin Dmitry Vasilyevich to a design by the architect N. M. Veshnyakov; it was blown up in 1965.[1]
Construction and appearance
The church was built in 1912 as the cathedral church of the Nizhny Novgorod community of the Belokrinitsa accord. The commissioner and donor was Dmitry Vasilyevich Sirotkin, mayor of Nizhny Novgorod in 1913–1917, chairman of the council of the All-Russian Congresses of Old Believers of the Belokrinitsa accord, and of the council of the Nizhny Novgorod community. The design was prepared by the architect N. M. Veshnyakov.[1]
The fate of the church and its iconostasis
In 1965 the church building was blown up. Shortly before its demolition, in 1964, the Old Believer community had been given another church — the church at 34 Pushkin Street (now the Cathedral of the Dormition), built in 1914–1916 to a design by V. A. Pokrovsky. The first service according to the old rite in the new building took place on January 10, 1965. The iconostasis of the destroyed church on Suetinskaya Street was saved and moved to the church at 34 Pushkin Street, where it remains to this day.[1]
Links
- Official website (archive) (sobory.ru)
Sources
- Historical Encyclopedia of Nizhny Novgorod — Old Believers in the Nizhny Novgorod Region (archive)