The Chapel of Elijah the Prophet

The chapel on the site of the Ilyinsk church. The church in the name of the Holy Prophet Elijah was built in 1789 on the site where once stood the Znamensky gate of the Omsk prison. The church was built “by the efforts of the former commander-in-chief, lieutenant-general Nikolai Gavriilovich Ogarev and the labors of servicemen according to the plan and facade issued by whom and when.” In the 1880s, the merchant G. D. Kuzmin on the north side of the church was added a chapel in the name of the Intercession of the Virgin, in 1887 the merchant G. I. Terekhov built a chapel on the south side in the name of St. Great Martyr and healer Panteleimon. The square in front of the church was called Ilyinskaya.

The church was destroyed in 1935. On the elevated site, made on the site of the church, there is now a monument to V. I. Lenin, and the square itself bears the name of V. I. Lenin. In the early 2000s. at the expense of the Union of entrepreneurs of the Omsk region on the site of the Ilyinsk Church was built a chapel.