TEMPLE BUILDING

The Creative Universe Project pays special attention to the restoration and construction of Orthodox temples. Churches and Orthodox shrines are being built and restored in Russia, Belarus, Serbia, Bulgaria and Cyprus. Largely thanks to the support and efforts of the Foundation in Saint Petersburg, the buildings of the Ioannovsky Convent on Karpovka were restored, the Church of St. George the Victorious, the Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross and the Church in the name of St. Blessed Xenia of St. Petersburg were erected. According to ancient, miraculously saved drawings and photographs, the Temple of the Nativity on the Sands destroyed in 1934 was recreated from scratch.

Ioannovskiy Stavropegic Convent on Karpovka, Saint Petersburg

Founded in 1900 by the Holy Righteous Father John of Kronstadt and named after the Holy Righteous Father John of Rylsk, his spiritual patron. It was built in neo-Byzantine style upon the project of the diocesan architect Nikolai Nikonov. In 1923, the buildings of the convent were transferred to the ameliorative technical school; in March 1926, the entrance to the tomb of Father John was walled up. Almost all the nuns were arrested in the early 1930s and doomed to exile in Kazakhstan. In 1989, the convent was transferred to the diocese of Saint Petersburg. Since that time its restoration started.

The relics of the Holy Righteous John of Kronstadt, one of the patron saints of our city, rest today in the restored church-tomb of the convent.

Photo: official website of the Ioannovskiy Stavropegic Convent