The Cathedral Of St. Nicholas Photo: Cathedral Of St. Nicholas

The Cathedral of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker – Orthodox Church, which is located in the Kirov district of the Kemerovo city.

The history of the temple dates back to 1846. There is a legend according to which, a rich Tartar, swimming across the river Tom, began to sink and asked about saving the "Russian God". He floated from the place where today is located the Church of St. Nicholas, and subsequently ordered to build a Church there. The first Church was built of wood in 1846 and was a small area of a single altar, the Church, the second Church of stone was erected nearly fifty years. In 1919 the Church was destroyed by the red partisans, but three years later the parishioners, the so-called "Renovationists", erected in the same place the new wooden Church.

In 1925, the St. Nicholas Church had a sad fate of most of the religious buildings of that time – the Church was closed and the building was turned into a granary. And only in 1945, after numerous requests of parishioners the Church was handed over to the community in perpetuity. For a long time the undisputed Dean of the Church was Simeon Sorocos, a significant role in the revival of St. Nicholas Church was played by the Church warden Vasily Ponomarev.

In 1970 there was major reconstruction of the Church, in which its area was increased by 64 sqm, wooden walls were replaced by brick walls, rebuilt the Laundry room. The interior of the temple is also updated – laid new floors, plastered and painted walls, ordered the large icons from the artist N. Lukovkin from Novosibirsk, was re-gilded iconostasis and icon-cases. Secondary reconstruction of the temple was held ten years later, during which wooden structure baptismal temples was replaced by a stone. Later, in the Cathedral Nicolas the Wonderworker was built two-storey stone building of the Sunday school.

Today, the Cathedral of St. Nicholas is one of the main Orthodox shrines of the city of Kemerovo.

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