The Lutheran Church of Saint Michael () is a church built between 1874–1876 in

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

's Vasiliyevski Island. The church in

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was designed by engineer Karl von Bulmering. The façade was renovated in 1886 with a design by Rudolf Berngard. The church was first built for the use of a

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Lutheran Lutheranism is one of the largest branches of Protestantism, identifying primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German monk and reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practice of the Catholic Church launched th ...

congregation with connections to the cadet school on the island set up in the 1700s. From 1929 to its closure in 1935, it was used by the Lutheran Church in Russia, now part of the

Evangelical Lutheran Church in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Central Asia The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Central Asia (russian: Евангелическо-лютеранская церковь в России, Украине, в Казахстане и Средней Азии), also ...

. After its closure, it was given to the sports equipment factory. In the 1990s, the church was granted to a Russian-speaking congregation of the Lutheran Church of Ingria, which then renovated the building. The address of the church is Sredni prospekt Vasiljevskogo ostrova 18. The nearest

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is Vasileostrovskaja.

External links

The church's entry in the St Petersburg encyclopedia

The website of the congregation
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