Religion in Yekaterinburg

According to the administration of Yekaterinburg in January 2017, 32 thousand people were registered in the city celebrating Orthodox Christmas (which, according to church rules, is obligatory for believers) ^[1] . That is, the Orthodox make up 2.13% of all residents of the city ^[2] .

The largest religious denomination in Yekaterinburg is Orthodoxy . Yekaterinburg hosts the Yekaterinburg Metropolis of the Russian Orthodox Church . On April 17, 2010, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill visited the city with a pastoral visit. ^[3]

• Holy Trinity Cathedral
• John the Baptist Cathedral . The only temple operating in Soviet times
• Temple on blood
• Temple in the name of the holy healer Panteleimon
• Transfiguration Church
• Church in honor of the Holy Trinity
• Church in honor of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Assumption House Church)
• Church of the Nativity of Christ
• Church in the Name of Holy Blessed Xenia of St. Petersburg
• Church in the name of St. Innocent, Metropolitan of Moscow
• Church in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God ^[4]
• Temple in honor of the icon of the Mother of God "Sovereign" ^[5]
• Temple of Seraphim of Sarov ^[6]
• Church of the Protection of the Holy Virgin (Mountain Shield)

• Surb Karapet Church

The first temple in Yekaterinburg of the Armenian Apostolic Church in the name of St. Karapet (John the Baptist) was founded in 2005, and completed and consecrated on October 14, 2013.

• Church of St. Anne

The Catholic community built the first Catholic church in Yekaterinburg on collective donations in 1884. After the revolution of 1917, the temple was ruined, and in the early 60s the temple building was demolished. In the early 90s of the XX century, after the registration of the Catholic parish, permission was obtained to build a church on the site of the former economic extension to the destroyed one. On July 30, 2000, the new church was consecrated by Bishop Joseph Werth.

There is a fairly large Muslim community in the city that lacks mosques - currently there are only two small mosques of official mosques in the city: Abu Khanif in the Tatar-Bashkir (Muslim) cemetery and the cathedral mosque in the so-called "Gypsy village" near the park named after the 50th anniversary of the Komsomol. At the moment, two more mosques have been built in the satellite city of Yekaterinburg - Verkhnyaya Pyshma : Ramadan not far from the Verkhnyaya Pyshminsky (Alexander) cemetery and the Copper Mosque named after Imam Ismagil al-Bukhari next to the city park.

On November 24, 2007, the first stone was laid in the construction of a large Cathedral Mosque with four minarets for 2500 parishioners in the immediate vicinity of the cathedral and synagogue, thereby forming the “area of ​​three religions” ^[7] . The mosque was planned to be built by the SCO summit, but due to funding problems, the construction has not moved from zero and is currently frozen. On October 1, 2010 , the Ural Muftiate was registered in Yekaterinburg. ^[8] Currently, on the site of the planned Great Cathedral Mosque, the Nur-Usman Small Mosque is temporarily located. ^[9]

It was opened in 2001, its construction was carried out for almost 10 years, at the expense of taxpayers from the United States ^[10] .

The existing synagogue (Chabad) was opened in 2005 - at the same place where until 1962 there was an old synagogue built in the 19th century.

Most of the religious buildings of the city were destroyed during the years of Soviet rule - in addition to the synagogue, the three largest Orthodox churches were blown up - the Epiphany Cathedral (now in its place in 1905 ), the Catherine Cathedral (now - Labor Square), the temple-bell tower " Big Zlatoust " (was the tallest building in pre-revolutionary Yekaterinburg - 77 meters high), a Lutheran church in the name of St. Peter and Paul of Yekaterinburg and the Roman Catholic Church of St. Anne (a new Catholic church with the same name was built in 2000). Other churches were used as warehouses and industrial sites. Recently, some churches are being restored - in 2004 the building of the Assumption Church on the VIZ, which since 1943 housed the bakery No. 3, was returned to the diocese, which intends to rebuild the temple ^[11] ; since 2006, according to the surviving drawings, the restoration of the Big Chrysostom has been underway, which is scheduled to be completed in 2010 .