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.

Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross (Saviour on Kamenka), Saint Petersburg

The only church in Russia that has a twin church in Cyprus (Temple in honour of the Saint Andrew the First-Called and All the Saints shone in the Russian land). It was given a popular name - Saviour on Kamenka. The parish of the temple was registered in 2009 and until recently, parishioners prayed in a temporary temple-chapel in honour of the icon of the Mother of God of the Life-Giving Spring. On September 27, 2016, after long bureaucratic documentary difficulties, Markell, Bishop of Tsarskoe Selo, vicar of the diocese of Saint Petersburg, performed the solemn consecration of the stone embedded in the foundation of the temple.

On September 27, 2018, the first Divine Liturgy was held in the newly built temple. And on October 11, 2018, the church was consecrated by Metropolitan Barsanuphius of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga. The Church of the Saviour on Kamenka has become an adornment of the new quarters of Primorsky district.