The Sacred Heart Church (russian: Храм Пресвятого Сердца Иисуса) is a Catholic church, of neogothic style located in the historic center of the city of

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. In 1902 it was decided to expand and build a church of red brick neo-Gothic style. At a cost of 80 thousand rubles, the project was entrusted to the Polish architect Bogdanovich (or Bohdanowicz), who built the

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. Under the patronage of the

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, it was consecrated in February 1906. Its two towers of 47 m in height made it for a long time the tallest building in the city. The parish was disbanded by the Soviet authorities in the 1920s. Later, they closed the church, and it was vandalised. In 1941, a regional

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was installed there. In 1991, the Catholic community regained the church for worship.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sacred Heart, Church Buildings and structures in Samara, Russia Roman Catholic churches completed in 1906 1906 establishments in the Russian Empire 20th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Russia Cultural heritage monuments of federal significance in Samara Oblast Gothic Revival church buildings in Russia

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