Church of the Holy Trinity (Peterhof)

First Church

Initially, in the area of ​​Own Cottage, there was a wooden church in the name of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God, built to the west of the palace of Elizabeth Petrovna by 1748. The temple was one-domed, without a bell tower. Its length was 12.8 meters and a width of 6.4 meters. The iconostasis and icons painted on canvas were transferred from the Peter and Paul Cathedral . By the end of the 18th century, it was abolished.

In 1797 the temple was restored and consecrated in the name of the Holy Life-Giving Trinity . It was disassembled in disrepair in 1858.

Modern Temple

On July 4 (16), 1858, on the site of this church, the confessor of the imperial family, Protopresbyter Vasily Bazhanov, in the highest presence, made the solemn laying of a new stone church, the project of which was developed by architect A.I. Shtakenschneider . Under the altar in the new temple was laid a slab with a cross carved on it, found when the old church was broken.

The solemn consecration of the temple was performed by him on July 15 (27), 1860 in the highest presence.

Divine services in this temple were performed once a year - on the feast of the Holy Trinity.

In 1918, the church was closed and was used as a waiting room for visitors to the so-called Domestic Museum, located in the nearby palace building (Own Cottage).

In the aftermath of the war years, the church building began to gradually come into disrepair, and in the 1970s it was mothballed.

In 2005, the church building was transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church and assigned to the Church of St. Seraphim of Sarov in Old Peterhof . The temple is undergoing restoration work.

In the forms of the stone temple there are elements of imitation of architecture of the first half of the 18th century . The temple is one-story, arranged in the basement. The captivity is rectangular due to the fact that the rectangular volumes of the altar and the narthex are adjacent to the quadruple of the main volume. The onion dome is mounted on an octagonal light drum. The windows are large. The exterior was modest.

The interior decoration of the church was carried out under the guidance of Professor A.P. Bryullov .

In the temple there was a mosaic icon of the Mother of God, inserted into the upper board of the lectern.

Separately from the church, a small bell tower was built on six hollow cast-iron columns, with a tent-shaped finish and a stone base. Her project, approved on June 17 (27), 1860, was developed by A.I. Shtakenschneider. Currently, the bell tower is completely destroyed.

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  1880s photo

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  The interior of the temple.
  Figure 1850s

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  The interior of the temple.
  1890s photo

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