 | ||
The St. Nicholas' Church (Russian: Храм Святого Николая) It is a Catholic church, built in Gothic style, protected monument of the city of Luga near St. Petersburg in the Leningrad region in northern Russia. This Latin-rite church was returned to its owners in 1996. It depends on the Northwest Deanery belonging to the Archdiocese of Moscow.
It was the end of the nineteenth century almost five hundred Catholics living in the town of Luga, mostly workers of the railway line. A parish registers and requested permission in 1895 to build a wooden chapel. The authorization is only granted in 1902 by which time increased the number of faithful, so they decided to build a small brick church Gothic whose plans are entrusted to the architect Dietrich. It is dedicated on 29 June 1904 to St. Nicholas. A few months later Fr. Antoni Malecki opened a parochial school for children from poor families.
At the time of Stalinist repression, the church was closed in 1937; the priest, the organist and nineteen active parishioners were executed. The building was converted into a gym. After the fall of the USSR was reconsecrated in 1996.