The Great Patriotic War left a heavy mark not only on the fate of Volgograd and its historical monuments, but also on the hearts of the city's residents. However, the spirit of the Volgograd residents was not broken, as evidenced by the active construction of new churches and the revival of lost Orthodox shrines.
Since pre-war times, the city has preserved the Kazan Cathedral in the pseudo-Russian style, built at the end of the 19th century, and the church of St. Nikita of Midikia at the end of the 18th century. However, new churches are also noteworthy. Guests of the city should definitely see the Temple of All Saints on the Mamayev Kurgan, a majestic Byzantine-style temple in honor of St. righteous John of Kronstadt, the Transfiguration Cathedral in the "7 winds" microdistrict and one of the few wooden churches in the city - the Transfiguration Cathedral on Spartanivka.
Operating churches and cathedrals in Volgograd
List of the most famous and popular temples in the city.
Kazan Cathedral
The church in honor of the icon of the Kazan Mother of God was built in 1894-1899 as a cemetery church. The construction was carried out at the expense of the parishioners. In 1904, a bell tower and a refectory were added to the church. In 1939, the church was closed and converted into a bakery. The building was badly damaged during the Battle of Stalingrad, but its original appearance was restored already in 1948, and later the walls were painted. The temple received the status of a cathedral in 1954. During the last restoration in 2010, the pre-revolutionary tents were restored and new bells were installed.
Address: Volgograd, st. Lipetsk, 10
Website: http://volgograd-sobor.ru
Church of John the Baptist
In 1589, the first wooden church was built in Tsaritsyn by the Cossacks. It was consecrated in the name of St. prophet John the Baptist. After 10 years, it burned down, and the first stone church in the city was erected in its place. Some historians believe that it was in it that Stepan Razin was baptized. The temple was honored with a visit by Peter I. In 1932, St. John the Baptist Church was blown up, and during the war its foundation was used by the Germans as a bunker. In 2000, the temple was restored, now it is the courtyard of the Holy Ascension convent in the city of Dubovka.
Address: Krasnoznamenskaya, 2
Website: http://ioann-predtecha.ru
Church of All Saints on Mamayev Kurgan
The temple was built in 2005, for the 60th anniversary of the Victory, although the idea itself arose much earlier. It was erected at the 102nd height - the place for which the Soviet troops fought for 120 long days from September 1942 to January 1943. The austere white brick temple is crowned with five domes resembling the helmets of ancient Russian soldiers. The height of the church is 33 meters. From the inside, it is decorated with unique volumetric icons of three Russian warrior saints, made in beaded technique, and an iconostasis, painted in the ancient traditions of temple painting.
Address: Volgograd, Mamaev Kurgan
Temple-chapel of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God
The chapel-temple at the memorial cemetery of Mamayev Kurgan was consecrated in 2006, on the day of the 61st anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. In appearance, the chapel resembles an ancient Russian warrior, dressed in armor and a helmet, and echoes the nearby Church of All Saints. Both buildings were built of white brick according to the design of one architect - Yu. Kossovich. The construction was sponsored by the vice-mayor of Volgograd.
Address: Volgograd, Mamayev Kurgan, memorial cemetery
Temple of Sergius of Radonezh
The wooden Church of St. Sergius has existed in Tsaritsyn since the end of the 19th century, in 1908 it was rebuilt in stone. It was one of the most numerous parishes in the city. The temple was closed in 1932, after the war the building was demolished. The construction of the new Sergius Church was timed to coincide with the 600th anniversary of the death of Venerable. Sergius of Radonezh. The consecration took place in 1999. The temple is decorated with large green stained glass windows illuminated in the evening. The interior decoration uses semi-precious Ural stones, stucco moldings, valuable wood species and mosaic icons made by Volgograd artists.
Address: Tkacheva, 1
Website: http://hram-sergiya.ru
Church of St. John of Kronstadt
Construction of a new church in honor of St. righteous John of Kronstadt in Krasnooktyabrsky district of Volgograd began in 1991. It was consecrated five years later, in 1996. It is a small white brick church topped with blue domes. Since 2005, a large Byzantine-style temple for 1000 people has been under construction. Currently, construction work has been completed, interior decoration is in progress. It is noteworthy that both churches are consecrated in honor of one saint. When all the work in the large church is completed, the small church will become a baptismal one.
Address: Tumanyan, 38
Website: http://ik-hram.prihod.ru
Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker
Nikolsky temple was built and consecrated in 2012 in memory of the lost church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker of the early XX century. According to one version, it was demolished in 1946 for the sake of building a pasta factory, according to another, it was hit by an enemy shell. The modern temple is located in the Tulaka microdistrict, not far from the historical location. There are two side-chapels in the church - the upper one in honor of St. Nicholas and the lower one in honor of the Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos.
Address: Turkmenskaya, 15 D
Church of All Saints Who Shone in the Russian Land
The temple was built with the blessing of Patriarch Alexy II in 1994. Three years later, a new golden dome was installed, and in 2005 a gate belfry was erected near the temple, the bells for which were donated by a secret benefactor. The church has a carved iconostasis and a painted central dome. Interior improvement work continues. The temple is located very well - it stands on the banks of the Volga in the place where the central embankment of Volgograd begins.
Address: Marshal Chuikov, 57
Website: http: // temple of all Russian saints.rf
Temple of Paraskeva Friday
The one-story one-domed church was built in 1915 in the Kirovsky district of Volgograd at the expense of the merchant V.F. Lapshin in memory of his late wife Paraskeva and children. The church was considered family-clan, but was open to everyone. During the Soviet period, the temple was destroyed, the dome was knocked down. After the war, it housed military warehouses. The temple was returned to the Church in 1991, and restoration work began. In 2015, the church celebrated its centenary. In 2016, a park of Valor and Glory was laid out next to it, where a memorial bust to V.F. Lapshin was installed.
Address: Nikitina, 119 B
Website: http://paraskeva-vlg.ru
Temple of Faith, Hope, Love and their mother Sophia
The parish of the temple was formed in 2001. Soon a white brick temple was erected, topped with a faceted dome. The temple is located on the territory of the city hospital No. 5 in the Krasnooktyabrsky district of Volgograd. He has a Sunday school and a chapel for the hospital's maternity ward. A temporary iconostasis has been installed in the church, finishing work is underway.
Address: Volgograd, V.I. Lenin, 145 B
Website: http://veri-nadeghdi.cerkov.ru
Temple of Prince Vladimir
The temple was re-equipped from the former recreation center "Silikachik" in 1999. In 2006, the roof of the temple collapsed, something was restored, but less than a year later there was a fire. The temple had to be completely reconstructed. The restoration work was completed in 2009. Then the facade of the temple was painted, and the interior improvement began. There is a small belfry near the temple. The church contains the relics of St. Equal to the Apostles Prince Vladimir and the relics of St. Concordia donated to the temple by the Belgian princess Jacqueline Demiroth.
Address: Krasnopolyanskaya, 9
Website: http://hramvladimir.ru
Temple of the Holy Martyr Joseph of Astrakhan
A small temple made of red and white bricks was built in 1997 with funds from the Pamyat ritual agency. Despite the fact that the temple is located in the central Dmitrovsky cemetery of Volgograd and mainly conducts funeral services for the dead, the temple also has its own permanent parishioners.The shrine of the temple is a particle of the relics of the Hieromartyr Joseph of Astrakhan, the first Metropolitan of Astrakhan, who was martyred in 1671 during the uprising led by Stepan Razin.
Address: Karl Liebknecht, 2A / 2
Savior Transfiguration Church
The temple was built on the territory of the 7 Vetrov microdistrict in 1994, but the improvement work continued until 2007. The temple is crowned with three golden domes, a two-tier hipped bell tower is erected next to it. The Transfiguration Cathedral has its own subsidiary farm. Through the efforts of the abbot, a real natural corner has been created here - there is a dovecote, a chicken coop, a stable for goats and horses. Water from our own well is used to water the plants in the garden. Also on the territory of the temple there is a bathhouse, a refectory and a baptismal.
Address: Kosmonavtov, 16
Website: http://svetfavora.com
Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin
For the needs of the temple, the abandoned building of the cinema "Energia" was converted. It was handed over to the parish in 1995, at the same time reconstruction work began. In 1999, a large dome with a cross was installed and the upper halls were equipped. The church has two side-chapels: the main one - in honor of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos, the second (lower) - in honor of Spiridon of Trimifuntsky. The church has a Sunday school and an Orthodox culture center with a large concert hall. In 2016, its own bakery was opened. The parish is one of the largest in the southern part of the city.
Address: Volgograd, prosp. Stoletova, 4
Website: http://rbvlg.ru
Temple of Praise of the Most Holy Theotokos
In 2005, the city administration handed over the abandoned building of the Mir cinema to the jurisdiction of the Volgograd and Kamyshin dioceses, and work began on cleaning the building from debris and interior arrangement. In 2011, the central dome was installed, in 2013-2014, the facades were renovated. A separate baptismal room has been erected at the church, a Sunday school and a library are working. The relics of the temple are the relics of St. Alexander of Sanaksar and St. Demetrius of Rostov.
Address: Cherepovetskaya, 92/2
Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord
The Transfiguration Church is located in the Traktorozavodsky district of the city. Its foundation was laid in August 1999, but due to budget constraints, not a temple was built, but a wooden chapel, made according to sketches by Penza masters. The construction was completed in 2002. The architectural appearance of the chapel skillfully combines the features of a traditional temple and a wooden tower. A carved iconostasis is installed inside. There is a small belfry nearby.
Address: Kasterina, 3
Temple of the Epiphany
The Epiphany Church was built in the Tulak microdistrict in 2004, although the parish was formed back in 1999. While construction was underway, services were performed in a temporary church-carriage. In 2013, the central part of the temple was expanded due to the large number of parishioners. A separate building for a Sunday school has been built nearby, and an Orthodox kindergarten is working. In September 2019, the parish of the temple celebrated its 20th anniversary.
Address: Yaroslavskaya, 5
Website: http://pravoslavienavolge.ru
Temple of the Uryupinsk Icon of the Mother of God
The temple is located in the children's city park. Once there was a city cemetery, at which there was a wooden church in honor of the icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow". In 1837 it was rebuilt in stone. After the cemetery was closed in 1886, its territory began to be actively built up. In 1929, the temple was closed; instead of the removed bells, red flags were erected. After the war, the building was dismantled. The current Sorrows Church is located on the site of the old one, which is confirmed by the results of excavations.
Address: Volodarsky, 15
Church of the Icon of the Mother of God "Sign"
The parish of the church was formed in 1993, divine services were held in a private house, until in 1998 the carriage depot Volgograd-2 donated a decommissioned railway carriage to the parish. It was converted into a temporary temple. In parallel, the construction of a new one-domed red brick church with an upper chapel in honor of the Nativity of Christ was underway. The work was carried out at the expense of benefactors and ended in 2013.
Address: University, 68
Temple of the Icon of the Mother of God "Unexpected Joy"
The parish of the church was formed in 1993 at the hospital No. 4 of the Traktorozavodsky district of Volgograd. The hospital management allocated a former gatehouse, in which a prayer room was equipped. A separate stone church began to be built in 2007, and services began in it already in 2009. It is a small one-story temple with a large glossy dome in bright blue and a small bell tower. The shrines of the temple are a part of the Life-giving Cross of the Lord, parts of the relics of St. Luke of Crimea and other saints.
Address: Opolchenskaya, 40, bldg. 2
Website: http://hram-radosti.cerkov.ru
Church-chapel of Feodor Ushakov
The temple-chapel in memory of the first builders of the Volga-Don navigable canal was built in 2011 opposite the arch of the 1st lock. Before that, there was a wooden chapel, which burned down in a fire in 2008, not standing for a year. The construction of the brick church-chapel was carried out with the support of the Volga-Don Canal Administration. The chapel was consecrated in honor of the Russian naval commander Fyodor Ushakov, glorified by the Russian Orthodox Church in the face of saints.
Address: Fadeeva, 39 B
Website: http: //khramushakova.rf
Temple of the Archangel Michael
The temple belongs to the Russian Ancient Orthodox Church. The first ancient Orthodox church was built in Tsaritsyn back in 1905, but in 1938 it was closed. The building was destroyed during the war. Since then, ancient Orthodox Christians gathered in private homes, until finally, in 2008, the administration allocated a plot of land for the construction of a new church. It was built in 2013-2014 from pine and larch wood. Wooden scaly domes for the temple were made by one of its parishioners. The consecration of the church took place in May 2014.
Address: East Kazakhstan, 41 B
Church of the Assumption of the Virgin
The Assumption Church dates back to 1905. Then it was a small wooden one-domed church. The Bolsheviks tried many times to close it, but these plans did not materialize - services ceased only at the beginning of the fighting in 1943 and resumed in December 1945. In 1961, the building was still withdrawn, and three years later it was dismantled. The reconstruction of the church began in 1994 on the old site. The parishioners managed to preserve the icon of the Vladimir Mother of God and one of the bells, now these are the main shrines of the temple, which since 2006 has become a courtyard of the Holy Spirit Monastery.
Address: Grazhdanskaya, 32 A
Website: http://uspenskij.prihod.ru
Temple of St. George the Victorious
The temple is located on the territory of the Volgograd Metallurgical Plant "Red October". It was consecrated on the feast day of St. Great Martyr George May 6, 2007. The project of the temple was developed by the architect Yu. Kossovich, the author of the Church of All Saints on the Mamayev Kurgan. St. George's Church, the only one in the entire Southern Federal District, is located in a closed enterprise, however, in agreement with the management of the plant, access to it is open to everyone.
Address: V.I. Lenin, 110, bldg. one
Church of St. John the Evangelist
In 1909, a healing spring was discovered in the floodplain of the Tsaritsa River, which was named after the Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian. They remembered about him only during the Great Patriotic War, when the surgeons of the military hospital located in the nearby regional hospital were in dire need of disinfectants. Old-timers told about the healing source of "living water". However, after the war, he was again forgotten until 1994. The spring was re-consecrated, and nearby in 2001-2002 a chapel with a bathhouse and a brick church of St. John the Theologian were erected.
Address: Bureyskaya, 1
Temple of Nikita the Confessor of Midikia
This is the only temple in Volgograd that has survived from the end of the 18th century. It was built in 1795 and practically never closed. Divine services ceased only in 1940-1943. The construction was sponsored by the Governor-General of Astrakhan Nikita Afanasyevich Beketov, therefore the temple is named after the saint of the same name. Restoration work was carried out in the middle of the 20th century and in the 90s.The temple is decorated with icons of saints, embroidered in the workshops of the Russian Cultural Society, a fresco of St. Nikita the Confessor by the icon painter E. V. Mavrodieva and other icons in the Old Russian style.
Address: Abganerovskaya, 110 A
Temple of Paisiy Velichkovsky
The parish was founded in 2010. A small church in the name of St. Paisiy, an Orthodox monk and translator of patristic works, was built in the Traktorozavodsky district of Volgograd in 1995-1996 on the foundations of a dilapidated house of culture. The bell for the church was donated by the Volgograd Tractor Plant. Services are held on Sundays and public holidays. The church has a Sunday school and a library.
Address: Volgograd, Verkhnezarechensky settlement, st. Dezhneva, 2 D
Website: http://paisia-velichkov.cerkov.ru
Church of St. Innocent of Moscow
In 1998, a parish of the church was formed, under the jurisdiction of which the premises of the former Metallurg club in the village of Vtorchermet were transferred. The first divine service took place in the same 1998. The church has a two-tiered wooden iconostasis. The main shrines are a particle of the Life-giving Cross of the Lord and an icon of St. Innocent of Moscow, the apostle of Siberia and America, with a particle of his relics. They pray to Saint Innocent for the happiness of motherhood.
Address: Nizhnyaya, 21
Website: http://innokentiy.cerkov.ru
Church of Alexander Nevsky and Cyrus and John
A small one-domed church with a gable roof is located on the territory of the Clinical Emergency Hospital No. 15 in the Krasnoarmeisky District of Volgograd. Its construction began in 2010 with donations from local entrepreneurs and regional Duma deputy A. Potapov. The funds for the gilded dome were raised by the hospital staff. The first divine service took place in September 2010, despite the continued construction.
Address: Andijan, 1A, hospital "Caustic"
Smolensk-Bryanchaninovskaya church
The temple is located in the cemetery in the Krasnooktyabrsky district of the city. Its construction began in 1999 with funds from the priest V. Rudnitsky, who was appointed trustee of the parish of St. Ignatius Brianchaninov. A year later, through his efforts, the construction of a temple in honor of the Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God was completed. In 2002, a three-tiered iconostasis was installed in the church, and in 2009, paintings appeared on the walls. The shrine of the temple is the icon of St. Ignatius with a particle of relics.
Address: Mendeleev, 159
Website: http://igna-tij.cerkov.ru
