Stroganov Church

Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Russian: Церковь Собора Пресвятой Богородицы), better known as Nativity or Stroganov is a Russian Orthodox church, located at the Rozhdestvenskaya Street in Nizhny Novgorod.

The burnt down church was restored by the wife of merchant Grigory Dmitrievich Stroganov - Maria Yakovlevna.

In the Soviet era, a decision was made to destroy the church, but the rector of the church Sergius Veisov (1915-1934) collected historical documents and photographs, read several lectures on the cultural significance of the Stroganov Baroque, and preserved this temple.

The church is two-level: at the top there is a three-apsidal altar, a prayer hall, a refectory and a porch.

On the stone slabs there are Slavic letters that divide the circle into 17 parts, according to the Old Russian calculation of time.

Stroganov Church on the painted photo of Andrei Karelin and Ivan Shishkin
The domes of the church