Alexander's Church Photo: Alexander's Church

In the mid-nineteenth century, the Vyatka region becomes the temporary home of the exiled Polish Catholics. In 1892, they are allowed to build a Church building, and two years later at an opportune moment, the poles had requested that only came to the throne the king for the building of the stone Church in memory of the deceased sovereign Emperor Alexander III.

In 1895, the poles are buying land from the landlord Syrneva and the next two years collecting donations for the Church building. The architectural design of the chapel was designed by architect K. Wojciechowski from Warsaw, and to guide the building process invited budding talented architect I. Charushin.

In August 1903 the Roman Catholic Church of St. Alexander was consecrated by the chaplain V. Ostrovskii, subsequently appointed rector of Vyatka Church. The construction is made in the form of a Latin cross in the architectural style of eclecticism. Decorative, classic elements of the facade blends Romanesque architecture with Baroque forms. Brick red color blends with white stone window openings, the archivolt arched niche and with the statues of the apostles Peter and Paul, located on the sides of the main entrance to the temple. Above the front door was located in the window-rose colored glasses.

Service in the Church ended in 1933, the clergy were repressed, values requisitioned and the Catholic parish ceased to exist. Nowadays, the building was returned to believers, and here is the concert hall of organ music.

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