The Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a Catholic church that was once located in the city of Baku , at the intersection of Merkuryevskaya (now Zarifa Aliyeva Street ) and Caspian (now Rashid Beybutov Street ) streets. It was built in 1912 according to the project of the Polish architect Joseph Ploško . Demolished in the 30s of the XX century .
| Church | |
| Catholic church of St. Mary | |
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| A country |  Russian Empire →  ADR →  Azerbaijan SSR |
| City | Baku |
| Denomination | Catholicism |
| Type of building | Church |
| Architectural style | Polish gothic |
| Architect | Joseph Ploško |
| Construction | 1909 - 1912 |
| condition | Demolished in the 30s of the XX century |
Content
- 1 Temple History
- 2 Architecture
- 3 notes
- 4 See also
Temple History
The design of the church was developed by Joseph Ploško in 1909 . Funds for the construction of the cathedral were donated mainly by the Rylsky family, Polish oil industrialists, as well as Vitold Zglenitsky, the founder of oil production from under the Caspian Sea . In 1912, the construction of the temple was completed. Since the main donors and parishioners of the church were mainly Poles , the people called the church "Polish." The place where the temple was located was considered prestigious among the people [1] .
After the establishment of Soviet power in Azerbaijan in 1920, the Bolsheviks began a struggle with religion . The church of the Blessed Virgin Mary became a target for the new government along with churches of other faiths - the Cathedral of Alexander Nevsky and the Bibi-Heybat mosque . In the 30s the church was demolished [1] .
In 1948, on the site of the temple, designed by the architect Hasan Majidov , the Palace of Culture named after F.E. Dzerzhinsky was built [2] (now the Center for Culture of the State Security Service ).
Architecture
Baku Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary was built in the style of pseudo - Gothic . His design was different from the architecture of several Gothic cathedrals in Poland . Nevertheless, Płoszczko managed to reflect the characteristic features of Polish Gothic architecture in the church. It was distinguished from French and English Gothic by the absence of special splendor and richness of decorative forms [1] .
The main facade of the church was made in the form of a plastic two-tower composition. The silhouette of the temple with faceted, open-type towers, according to architecture historian Shamil Fatullayev , was well defined. The roof of the towers was decorated with crabs . In the lower part of the facade of the building, strict plasticity of the figure stood out. The facade was supplemented by a portal and a rose window , which, as Fatullaev notes, was “appropriately included in the overall composition” [1] .
Temple construction
View from the Caspian street
On a postcard of the Russian Empire
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Fatullaev S. S. Jozef Ploško // polonia-baku.org.
- ↑ Mәҹidov Һәsәn Әli ғlu / Ed. J. Kulieva. - Azerbaijan Soviet Encyclopedia : Main Edition of the Azerbaijan Soviet Encyclopedia, 1982. - T. VI . - S. 545 .
See also
- Church of the Immaculate Conception (Baku)