Church of the Saint Queen Alexandra () ― an Orthodox church in

Rostov-on-Don Rostov-on-Don is a port city and the administrative centre of Rostov Oblast and the Southern Federal District of Russia. It lies in the southeastern part of the East European Plain on the Don River, from the Sea of Azov, directly north of t ...

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. It was built in 1904 in the town of

Nakhichevan-on-Don __NOTOC__ Nakhichevan-on-Don (, ''Naxičevan’-na-Donu''), also known as New Nakhichevan (, ''Nor Naxiĵevan''; as opposed to the "old" Nakhichevan), was an Armenian-populated town near Rostov-on-Don, in southern Russia founded in 1779 by Armen ...

(now a part of the Proletarian District of Rostov-on-Don). The author of the project was architect Vladimir Popov. The main altar was consecrated in the name of the Saint Queen Alexandra, and northern chapel is dedicated to Saint

Alexander Nevsky Alexander Yaroslavich Nevsky (; ; monastic name: ''Aleksiy''; 13 May 1221 – 14 November 1263) was Prince of Novgorod (1236–1240; 1241–1256; 1258–1259), Grand Prince of Kiev (1249–1263), and Grand Prince of Vladimir (1252–1263). ...

. Church of St. Alexandra has the status of an object of cultural heritage of regional significance.

History

Church of the Saint Queen Alexandra was built in 1904 at the Orthodox cemetery of Nakhichevan-on-Don to replace a wooden chapel there. For this reason, the size of the temple is relatively small: about 18 × 13 metres. Architect Vladimir Popov built the church in

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style. In 1910, there was constructed a

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, and in 1920 ― a

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. Church of Queen Alexandra was initially assigned to the Sofia Church (which hasn't preserved). During the Nazi occupation of the city at Alexandrian cemetery there were buried

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soldiers. In 1955, on the north side of the temple, there was constructed a chapel in the name of the Saint Prince Alexander Nevsky ― in memory of the demolished church of Alexander Nevsky in Nakhichevan-on-Don. To celebrate the

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, the

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was gilded. Sunday school operates at the Alexandrian Church. In 2002 at church there was established a Museum of

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Ioann Domovsky, who served in the Temple of Alexander Nevsky.

References

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