Built 1915 NRHP Reference # 79000196 Area 4,000 m² Added to NRHP 16 May 1979 | Architectural style Orthodox Church Opened 1915 Phone +1 603-752-2254 | |
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Address 20 Petrograd St, Berlin, NH 03570, USA Similar St Anne Church, Great Smoky Mountains, The Horn, Mount Cabot, Great Smoky Mountain Profiles | ||
The Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church (Russian: Свято-Воскресенская Православная Церковь, Svyato-Voskresenskaya Pravoslavnaya Tserkov) is a historic Eastern Orthodox Church building on Petrograd Street in Berlin, New Hampshire. The church is known locally as "The Russian Church" because it was built in 1915 by immigrants from the Russian Empire who were mostly from the provinces of Grodno, Volyn, and Minsk in modern-day Belarus and Ukraine. The church closed in 1963 but reopened in 1974 for the funeral of a Russian immigrant from modern-day Belarus, named Eugenia (Tarasevich) Tupick. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
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Architecture
The Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church was designed by John Bergesen, an architect from New York City. The church was built with six onion domes, which was common in Russian architecture of that period. The dimensions of the church are 36 by 63 feet (11 by 19 m), which does not include the main entrance, and a height of approximately 100 feet (30 m). The inside of the church is divided into three parts: the vestibule, the nave, and the sanctuary. Its icons were some of the last ones to leave Russia before Czar Nicholas II was overthrown.
History
In 1915, Reverend Arcady Piotrowsky came to Berlin from Cleveland, Ohio to establish an Orthodox church for the approximately 500 Russians that inhabited Berlin at that time. At first the church services were held in another church, but then moved to an old garage owned by the city. A site at the base of Mt. Forest was chosen for a new church building to be built, and on May 1, 1915, construction of the church began. On October 1, of that same year, the church was complete.