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.

Temple of the Nativity on the Sands, Saint Petersburg

The Temple of the Nativity on the Sands is a monument of church architecture of the 18th century in Saint Petersburg. It was built in 1787 upon the project of the architect P. E. Yegorov in the style of mature classicism. It was destroyed in 1934. The last rector of the temple, Archpriest Grigory Serbarinov, was shot in 1938. He was canonized. Now the temple is being recreated in its original place in its former forms thanks to the assistance of the famous honourary philanthropist of Saint Petersburg Vyacheslav Zarenkov.