Church of the Dormition
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Church of the Assumption in the city of Vladivostok, located on the street Svetlanskaya. Bookmark Assumption church on the slope of a hill (Pushkin) took place in June 1861 This was the first religious building in the city. Construction of the temple soldiers engaged in an apartment in the city of Vladivostok detachment of the 3rd Company of the 4th Battalion of the line. Are identical consecration of the church was to be held in 1862 for the feast of the Annunciation, but due to illness priesthood ceremony had to be postponed to April. The temple was a small 19 m in length and 8, 5 meters wide. On the face of the temple was an ordinary log house and only a wooden cross on the gable roof pointed out that the appointment of the building.

In August 1876, shortly before the feast of the Assumption of Mary near the current temple was laid of a new church - Cathedral of the Assumption of the project Shmakov. However, the construction was stopped. Some time later, in 1886, he has been preparing a new project of the cathedral, the author of which was the architect Miller. The solemn consecration of the cathedral took place at the end of 1889 a temple could accommodate about a thousand worshipers. The height of the main dome is 35 meters. In January 1899 it received the status of a cathedral.

In 1932 the Assumption Cathedral was closed, and in 1938 it destroyed altogether. On the rest of the cathedral foundation it was built a house.

In 1997, city officials decided to transfer the former building of the Orthodox Church cathedral house before the entrance to the complex is destroyed cathedral. Before revolyutsmm this building was used as a treasury, the library, recreation rooms for the clergy, outbuildings, and later - as a school DOSAAF.

The rector of the parish, Archimandrite Sergei resurgent (Chashin) put a lot of effort to the Church of the Assumption became a real adornment not only Vladivostok, but also throughout the Seaside diocese. In 1997, the church held its first service.

In 2001, a church with a dome and crosses, and by Easter 2002 there was established a three-tiered iconostasis. In 2004, the walls of the temple was decorated with amazing paintings on the Gospels. In April 2006, the solemn consecration of the church in honor of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin.

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