Location : OLD BELIEVERS CHURCH OF THE SIGN OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
Saint Petersburg.
The Church of the Sign of the Blessed Virgin Mary was erected as a prayer room for the community of Old Believers of Pomeranian consent at the expense of the merchant of the first guild Vera Kokoreva and voluntary donations from believers. The church was built in 1906-1908. Architect D.A. Kryzhanovsky, according to the design of which the church was built, personally observed its construction.
The temple is designed in the Art Nouveau style, while the architect invested in his creation motifs characteristic of the works of ancient architecture of northern Russia. A chapel for the funeral of the deceased is combined with the five-domed church. In the first decades of the church’s existence, the interior included a significant number of Old Believer icons, ancient utensils. The layout also included accommodation for adherents of other Old Believers.
The temple complex ceased to work in 1933, when church premises were given by the Leningrad City Executive Committee to the Metal plant for the enterprise’s cultural center. The interior of the temple has undergone a significant change. At the end of the twentieth century, the building housed numerous offices of commercial firms.
In 2005, the Church of the Sign of the Blessed Virgin Mary was transferred to the Neva community of the Old Orthodox Pomeranian Church; two years later, divine services resumed in it.