The Sacred Heart Church () 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 Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Moscow. 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

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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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