Architect Liavon Vitan-Dubiejkawski | ||
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Similar Pamyatnik NV Krylenko, Pamyatnik Leninu, Monument Tvardovsky and his h, Palace of Children and Youth, Monument to defender | ||
The Immaculate Conception Church (Russian: Храм Непорочного Зачатия Пресвятой Девы Марии) It is an old Catholic church in the city of Smolensk in Russia. This neo-Gothic building, which was built from 1884 to 1896 also hosted the Regional Archive of Smolensk, is in a state of disrepair and is scheduled to complete restoration. Religious services are now partial.
The church was consecrated on October 23, 1896. It has a great body and remarkable stained glass windows. The number of parishioners asciendía for the time nine thousand faithful.
Records and parish archives were confiscated in 1918 during the Russian revolution. The parish meanwhile, which meets in one place, was closed during the Great Terror of 1937 and its cure executed along with a group of parishioners. The old church became a repository in 1940, just before the arrival of the Wehrmacht in 1941.
The Catholic community obtained permission from the 2000s to use your former rectory of ceremonies as a chapel, which was restored. Governor Sergei Antoufiev said in October 2010 that a new repository for files would be built and the church would be restored from 2011 through funds from Poland.
By early 2015 the temple was empty because the file was transferred to a specialized building.