Sobor Voskresenia Hristova, Tver
Facts and practical information
The Council of the Resurrection - the Orthodox Council of Tver, the Department of Tver's Eparchy. Erected in 1914.
The Council was founded in 1914 intended for workers of Morozowa Manufaktura, living in a separate estate. It was connected to the complex of the buildings of the female monastery of the Nativity. The building was one of the churches erected throughout the Russian Empire to commemorate the three hundred years of the reign of the Romanow family. A thousand rubles for its construction were donated by Tsar Nicholas II. The finished temple was dedicated to the Archbishop of Tver and Kaszyński Serafim. During the ceremony, another initiator of the construction of the temple was present - the Great Princess Elżbieta Fyodorowna Romanowa, which was the superior of the female monastery of Saints Marta and Maria in Moscow. The church was open for only a few years. After the October Revolution, the Bolshevik authorities closed it together with the neighboring monastery of the Lord and allocated to secular purposes. The building was returned only in 1988. Four years later, the Bishop of Tver and Kaszyński Wiktor made his re -sacrifice. The building has been thoroughly renovated.
From 2000, the relics of St. Sergius, a hieromnich serving as a chaplain, a nun from the monastery of Saints Marta and Maria, a newcomer. Next to the temple, a chapel dedicated to the saints of Tsar Nicholas II and his family was erected.
The Council represents the Neo -Survivor Style, imitates the medieval sacred architecture of the Pskov region.
1 Баррикадная улицаTver
Sobor Voskresenia Hristova – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)
Nearby attractions include: Botanical Garden of Tver State University, Transfiguration of the Lord Church, Tver River Terminal, Tverskoj imperatorskij putevoj dvorec.