The Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross of the 133rd Infantry Regiment of Simferopol is an Orthodox church located in the Dnieper , Ukraine.
| Orthodox church | |
| Holy Cross Exaltation Church | |
|---|---|
 | |
| A country |  Ukraine |
| City | Dnieper |
| Denomination | Orthodoxy |
| Established | |
| Building | 1911 - 1912 |
| condition | beheaded, no altar and belfry |
History
The church was built according to the standard design of military churches, approved by the Construction Commission in 1901 (architect Fedor Mikhailovich Verzhbitsky ). In total, in the Russian Empire by 1917 at least 60 such churches were built.
Initially, for the 133rd Simferopol Infantry Regiment, stationed in Yekaterinoslav (now the Dnieper ), in 1885 a small wooden Krestovozdvizhenskaya (1st military) church was built, lined with brick and designed for 400 people. Since 1892, the priest of this regiment was Vasily Khrisanfovich Ignatenko (information for 1913).
In 1909 , in view of the fact that this temple became dilapidated and became incompatible for the ranks of the regiment, the Ministry of War allocated 44,000 rubles for the construction of a new stone church of the same name, according to a previously approved model.
In April 1911, in the city center, on Abramovich Square, it was laid. A year later, the Holy Cross Exaltation (2nd military) temple was built and consecrated.
Outside, the temple was surrounded by an iron grate on a stone basement. A small chapel in the garrison cemetery was assigned to the church. The famous Ukrainian artist-symbolist Efim Mikhayliv (1885-1935), who was doing military service in Yekaterinoslav at that time, undertook to paint the temple. The widow of the artist Lyubov Mikhailova mentions this fact in her memoirs in an album of artworks by Yu. Mikhailov published in the USA in 1988 in the USA.
Currently
In Soviet times, the temple was closed and beheaded. Abramovich’s square, on which he was, also disappeared. Now in its territory, limited by the streets of Patorzhinsky, Chernyshevsky, Gogol and Zhukovsky, there is a complex of buildings of the Dnieper State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture .
Currently, the remains of the temple are a sad sight - its abs is demolished, and from the north, south and west facades in the 1960s, various stone extensions were made under the supervision of the above educational institution.