Church of the Holy Great Martyr Barbara

The church was built in the 18th century in Kazan after the revolt of E. Pugachev. Some sources believe that it was rebuilt from the country house of Kazan Vice-Governor Kudryavtsev. Originally it belonged to the Arsky cemetery. She later became a parish.

At the beginning of the 19th century, a new parish in the Russian style was built on the money of parishioners, but the lower tiers of the old one were left. Height increased to 46 m.

The location of the church in the vicinity of universities after the revolution was unacceptable and meetings of students in the Agricultural Academy, the Pedagogical Institute demanded to close the church. The temple was closed in 1930.
The last abbot was Archpriest Nikolai Petrov, arrested for anti-Soviet activities. The ancient temple icon of St. Barbara, and the image of the Wives of Myrrhbearers from the chapel of the same name, the believers managed to preserve.

In the period of the USSR in the temple was a club of workers tram park, prosthetic workshop.

In 1963, the Department of compressors and pneumatic units of KHTI was placed in the Varvarinsky Church.
The church was returned to the Church on the feast day (the day of St. Barbara) on December 17, 1994.

This attraction is located at the intersection of Gorky and K.Marks streets.