Church of the Holy Tsar-Martyr Nicholas II
nikitina street, 105/1, Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk region, Russia, 630009
Description:
The Church of the Holy Tsar-Martyr Nicholas II is built on the site of the Zakamensky cemetery, liquidated in the middle of the twentieth century. The temple is currently under construction, and services are held in a temporary building intended for administrative premises.
The future church is based on the project of the Cathedral of the Spaso-Andronikov Monastery in Moscow. The temporary church has a simple architecture. It was consecrated on March 23, 2007. A bell tower was built in 2009. It contains six bells cast at the Svetolitiye enterprise and a harbinger cast at the Moscow Litex plant in 2012. The temporary belfry is an architectural one-storey structure in the form of an octahedron, topped with a crown - a dome with a cross. The tier of ringing - with eight openings located on the cardinal points.
The church was consecrated in honor of Tsar-Martyr Nicholas II. By the decision of the Bishops’ Council of the Russian Orthodox Church of August 14, 2000, Emperor Nicholas II, Empress Alexandra, Tsarevich Alexy, Grand Duchess Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia were counted among the Holy New Martyrs.