Church of Saints Equal to the Apostles Constantine and Helena - orthodox church of the Sevastopol deanery of Simferopol and Crimean diocese of the UOC . It is located in the village Flotskoye Balaklava district of Sevastopol . Architecturally, the church is a simple one-nave basilica decorated with a portico with a triangular pediment, built in 1775 [2] .
| Orthodox church | |
| Church of Saints Equal to the Apostles Constantine and Helena | |
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| A country | Russia / Ukraine [1] |
| City | Sevastopol , Balaklava district , with. Navy |
| Denomination | Orthodoxy ( UOC ) |
| Diocese | Simferopol and Crimean |
| Type of building | basilica |
| Architectural style | classicism |
| Building | 1775 |
| condition | acting |
There is evidence that a church of the same consecration in the ancient Greek village of Karan existed in the first half of the 15th century [3] . The modern building was erected in 1775 (at the time of the annexation of Crimea to Russia on February 8, 1784, according to the Cameral Description of the Crimea ... 1784, there were 2 churches in the village [4] ). After the Greeks were evicted in September 1778 - according to the “Gazette on Christians withdrawn from Crimea in the Azov Sea” by A. V. Suvorov, 331 people left the village of Karan - 172 men and 159 women [5] - the churches were abandoned until 1841, when it was repaired and renewed [6] by the Greeks settled in Karani of the Balaklava battalion [7] .
The church was ravaged during the Crimean War of 1853-1856, immediately after its end, in 1856 it was corrected by parishioners and consecrated. The temple was closed in the 1920s and used as a cinema hall and club, renewed in the 1990s, assigned to the Balaklava St. George Monastery [3] .
Notes
- ↑ This geographical feature is located on the territory of the Crimean Peninsula , most of which is the subject of territorial disagreements between Russia , which controls the disputed territory, and Ukraine , within the borders of which the disputed territory is recognized by the international community. According to the federal structure of Russia , the subjects of the Russian Federation are located in the disputed territory of Crimea - the Republic of Crimea and the city of federal significance Sevastopol . According to the administrative division of Ukraine , the regions of Ukraine are located in the disputed territory of Crimea - the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city with special status Sevastopol .
- ↑ Temple of Constantine and Helena
- ↑ 1 2 Church of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Kings Constantine and Elena
- ↑ Office Description of the Crimea, 1784. Statement No. 32 ... on the villages that remained of the Christians and in these churches and houses whole and decayed.
- ↑ Bulletin of Christians withdrawn from Crimea in the Sea of Azov on September 18, 1778
- ↑ Hermogenes (bishop of Tauride). Reference book about the parishes and temples of the Tauride Diocese. Simferopol: Tauride Provincial Printing House, 1886. p. 212.
- ↑ "Ethnography of the Crimean Peoples" - Crimean Ethnoses: Greeks (Inaccessible link) . Date of treatment July 29, 2014. Archived on April 28, 2015.