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St. Maria Finnish Lutheran Church


Categories / Architecture/Architectural Monuments/Religious Architecture (see also Religion.Church)
Categories / Religion. Church/Places of Worship (see also Architecture and Urban Planning)

ST. MARIA FINNISH LUTHERAN CHURCH located at 6a Bolshaya Konyushennaya Street. An architectural monument constructed in 1803-05 to the plans of architect G. C. Paulsen in the Empire style for the Finnish Lutheran community. The facade is emphasised with a Tuscan portico. The building was partially redesigned in 1871 (architect C. K. Andersen) and in the 1890s (architect L. N. Benois). The meeting-house in Lakhta and a chapel on the Finnish plot of the Mitrofanyevskoe cemetery were under the care of the St. Maria Finnish Lutheran Church. The church had a school, two orphanages and a hospice. In 1938, the St. Maria Finnish Lutheran Church was closed down, the building was reconstructed as a dormitory. Since 1970, it was occupied by the House of Nature. In 1990 the building was returned to the Finnish community and restored (architects E. Lonka, S. Ivanov), consecrated anew in May of 2002, in the presence of the President of Finland. The building serves as the main church of the Church of Ingria.

References: Антонов В. В., Кобак А. В. Святыни Санкт-Петербурга: Ист.-церков. энцикл. СПб., 1996. Т. 3. С. 249-269; Ниронен Я. Финский Петербург. СПб., 2003. С. 104-110.

S. V. Boglachev.

Persons
Andersson Carl (Karlovich)
Benois Leonty Nikolaevich
Ivanov S.I.
Lonka E.
Paulsen Gottlieb Christoph

Addresses
Bolshaya Konyushennaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 6, litera л. А

Bibliographies
Антонов В. В., Кобак А. В. Святыни Санкт-Петербурга: Ист.-церков. энцикл.: В 3 т. СПб., 1994-1996

Chronograph
1805


Bolshaya Konyushennaya Street

BOLSHAYA KONYUSHENNAYA STREET (in 1918,-91 Zhelyabova Street, in memory of А. I. Zhelyabov), located between Konyushennaya Square and Nevsky Prospect. It was laid out in the early 1730s from the Court Stable (in Russian, Konyushenny) Yard buildings

Confessions, Non-Orthodox (entry)

NON ORTHODOX CONFESSIONS, Christian non-Orthodox churches. From the beginning of the 18th century, St. Petersburg was the centre of foreign confessions in Russia. The most numerous community were the Roman Catholics

Finns

FINNS, an ethnic community forming a part of the St. Petersburg population. The Finnish language is related to the Finno-Ugrian group of Uralic languages. Their faith is Lutheran

Zakharov A.D. (1761-1811), architect.

ZAKHAROV Andreyan (Adrian) Dmitrievich (1761 - 1811, St. Petersburg), architect, representative of Neoclassicism. In 1767-82, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts under the supervision of Y.M. Felten and A.A