Location Pyatigorsk Denomination Roman Catholic Church | Country Russia Architect Joseph Bernardacci | |
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The Transfiguration Church (Russian: Храм Преображения Господня) Is a Catholic church in the city of Pyatigorsk (Stavropol Krai) in southern Russia. it depends on the Diocese of Saratov and is in the number 1 of the Anisimov street.
Made in neoclassical style, is registered in the list of cultural heritage.
Pyatigorsk had a few thousand in the 1830s, half of which were almost all Catholic Polish exiles in the city after the Polish uprising of 1830. The Emperor Nicholas in 1837 granted permission to build a church for Catholics in the city. After raising money, was built from 1840 to 1844 according to designs by Giuseppe and Giovanni Battista, members of a famous dynasty of architects, authors of many architectural monuments in the Caucasus. The Bernardazzi brothers worked in construction to completion, but the church also ended with the help of Samuel Upton, of English origin.
The dedication ceremony of the Church of the Transfiguration was made on August 6, 1844. After the 1917 revolution, the Bolsheviks atheists pursued Him all religions. Religious services despite the repression organized by the authorities, somehow continued until 1937. However, in January 1938, at the height of Stalinist repression, the priest Johann Roth was shot and the closed church.
After the fall of communism the church is registered again in 1992. One was returned fully to the Catholic Church in 2005, previously it worked at the same time as Concert Hall and Catholic church.