The Troitskaya Verkhneposadskaya Church was an Orthodox church that once stood in Nizhny Novgorod on Starosennaya (Troitskaya) Square, at the end of Bolshaya Pecherskaya Street. It was built in 1867 and demolished during the Soviet period. It was a five-domed cathedral, erected on the initiative and by order of Emperor Nicholas I, who had visited Nizhny Novgorod thirty years earlier; construction costs amounted to 57,142 rubles. The merchant Rukavishnikov later contributed a substantial sum toward the church's decoration.[2]

Appearance and location

The church was a five-domed cathedral. In photographs from the late 19th and early 20th centuries it is visible from the direction of Bolshaya Pechyorskaya Street; to the right of the building stood the Second Kremlin District, and to the left the Mariinsky Institute for Noble Maidens).[2]

Fate in the Soviet period

After the establishment of Soviet Power, the Troitskaya Verkhneposadskaya Church was closed and demolished.[2] In 1948 the first buildings of the Institute of Foreign Languages were built on its site — now buildings No. 1 and No. 2 of the Dobrolyubov Nizhny Novgorod State Linguistic University.[1] Four university buildings occupy the entire former territory of Starosennaya Square.[1]

Sources

  1. pikabu.ru — Nizhny Novgorod in the late 19th – early 20th century. Colorized photographs. Part II (archive)
  2. mapy.com
  3. web.archive.org — On the history of the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin: lost churches — CENTRAL CITY LIBRARY of Nizhny Novgorod (archive)