V I E N N A S I G H T S
RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH OF ST. NICHOLAS
The Russian Orthodox Church in Vienna was founded in 1762, The inner space of the upper temple has the form of a cross although already in 1725, with the envoy at the Austrian inscribed in a square of walls, a tall light drum rests on four Imperial Court Lanchinsky and at his request, it was decided columns of colored marble, with richly ornamented capitals in Petersburg to send a hundred rubles a year to Vienna for a and reminiscent of Byzantine temples. In addition to the priest. traditional icon of the Cathedral of St. Nicholas is decorated with stained glass windows. The lower church is winter, The first years( until 1765) the Russian church was in the same smaller, consecrated in memory of Emperor Alexander III in house where the ambassador lived. On the maintenance of it the name of his heavenly patron Saint. blessing. led. Prince went those hundred rubles, which were previously intended
Alexander Nevsky. Chandeliers of the upper church painted for the Greek temple. In 1765, for the Viennese embassy with openwork Old Slavonic script were donated by Emperor church, a separate room was removed from the ambassador. Nicholas II.
During most of the 19th century, the church operated in the During the First World War the temple was closed. From 1914 usual regimes with one abbot. Since 1866, deacons have until the end of World War II, the temple of 31 was closed! already been appointed to the Viennese church. Also, an Orthodox choir was working at the church.
After the German attack on the USSR, the Reich Foreign Ministry, bypassing the legal norms, confiscated all the
At the end of the 19th century, general fundraising for the property of the Soviet diplomatic mission in Vienna including construction of a new church began. Emperor Alexander III, the cathedral. on the proposal of the ambassador, approved the initiative and, in addition, personally donated 200 thousand rubles for Since May 19, 1943, indicating the city ' s sweets, the construction, the other half of 200 thousand the Minister of Cathedral of St. Nicholas could be used to hold a divine Finance, IA Vyshnegradsky, sought out from government service temporarily by the Russian Orthodox community led funds. Private donations were accepted for the interior by retired colonel Georg von Geniuk. decoration of the church. February 13, 1945, there were two direct hits in the
The cathedral has two altars: on the top floor there is a plenipotentiary building, which entailed serious destruction. temple in the name of Sv. Nicholas, at the bottom- in the The cathedral throughout the war period, God from the name of St. blessing. led. Prince Alexander Nevsky. destruction of mercy.