Russian Orthodox Church, Dresden
The Russian Orthodox Church of Saint Simeon the wonderful mountains (Russian Церковь преподобного Симеона Дивногорца ) is a purpose-built in the 19th century religious building of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Saxon capital of Dresden.
History
The church was built in 1872-1874 by the architect Harald Julius von Bosse, a Russian State Council of German origin, who was also the builder of the German church in Sankt Petersburg, as well as by the architect Karl Weissenbach to the state road (now the Fritz -Löffler -Straße) the southern suburb built. About seven -tenths of the construction cost of 520,000 Reichsmark donated the Russian State Council Simeon Wikulin, after its patron saint, Saint Simeon by the beautiful mountains, the church was named.
The interior remained unfinished due to financial problems. The valuable archaic icons of the iconostasis was created by the Dutch painter James Marshall, known for its ceiling paintings of the Semperoper.
The first pastor of the church was St. Petersburg's Alexander Rozanov. In 1875 took Tsar Alexander II, who was involved in the financing of the church, attended a service in the church.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, who lived in Dresden 1869-1871 had baptized his daughter Lyubov in the church. The composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, who also lived for some time in Dresden, helped by a large donation to the installation of the still -functioning gas heating. Additional ( temporary) community members include Mikhail Bakunin and Ivan Turgenev.
Built especially for the Russian embassy in the Kingdom of Saxony Russian Orthodox Church still belongs to the Moscow Patriarchate. However, the Nazi authorities had in 1939 transferred to the Church, the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad as was expressed by a community of belonging to the Moscow Patriarchate. After German reunification, this led to a long-running legal dispute that could be settled by the reunification of the two churches only in May 2007.
Between 1914 and 1921 the church was due to " security concerns " which were directed against the worship services in Russian, closed.
When the air raids on Dresden in February 1945, the church remained relatively unscathed as the only building for miles around.
Today
The community now has over 1000 members. 2007, which began in 1985 extensive renovation and reconstruction was completed. The total cost estimated Archpriest Georgi Davidov to about one million euros.
Architectural
The 33 m long and 13 m wide brick with sandstone trim and a 40 m high bell tower is shown with its five onion domes in the style of Russian sacred buildings of 16-17. Century. The onion domes show Christ and the four evangelists.