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Myasnikovsky District Myasnikovsky District (russian: Мяснико́вский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #340-ZS and municipalLaw #182-ZS district (raion), one of the forty-three in Rostov Oblast, Russia. It is located in the west of the oblast. The area ...

Rostov Oblast Rostov Oblast ( rus, Росто́вская о́бласть, r=Rostovskaya oblast, p=rɐˈstofskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in the Southern Federal District. The oblast has an area of and a populati ...

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, Russia. It is also officially declared as an architectural monument of regional significance of

cultural heritage of Russia The national cultural heritage register of Russia (russian: Единый государственный реестр объектов культурного наследия) is a registry of historically or culturally significant man-made immovab ...

History

Nesvetay village was founded in 1780, when thousands of Armenian families from Crimean peninsula were resettled in Don region on the decree of Catherine II. The Church of John the Baptist was first built here in 1790. In 1837, one of Armenian merchants from Nakhichevan-on-Don petitioned to spiritual authorities to grant permission to build a new church in Nesvetay with his own funds, as the old had already been in dilipiated state. The permission was granted, and in spring of 1858 the construction was started. In 1866 the merchant, died and willed to finish construction of the church. In 1867, Nesvetay parishioners petitioned the build another church using the remaining materials, for the constricting one, in their opinion, wasn't built in the style of Armenian architecture and wasn't situated in the right place. Yet they were denied and construction of the church was finished in 1870. In 1930s the church came into dilipiated state as no one could grant money for its reconstruction. The church was closed. During World War II the building was hit by shelling several times. In 1992, the church building was officially declared as an architectural monument of regional significance of

. Today it still requires a reconstruction.

References

Literature

(in Russian) * Вартанян В.Г., Казаров С.С. Армянская-Апостольская Церковь на Дону // Ростов н/Д., 2001 Е.И. * Халпахчьян О.X. Архитектура Нахичевани-на-Дону // Ер. 1988 * Шахазиз Е. Новый Нахичеван и новонахичеванцы / Перевод с армянского Ш. М. Шагиняна // Ростов-на-Дону, 1999 * Российская и Ново-Нахичеванская епархия Армянской Апостольской Церкви. Исторический путь. М., 2013

External links

John the Baptist Church in Armenian Encyclopedia
Churches in Rostov Oblast Armenian Apostolic churches in Russia Churches completed in 1870 Cultural heritage monuments of regional significance in Rostov Oblast Nesvetay {{Russia-OO-church-stub