St. Nicholas Cossack Cathedral

St. Nicholas Cossack Cathedral until 1916 was the St. Nicholas Cossack Church, was founded in May 1833. It is considered the oldest temple in Omsk and is the only preserved temple during the Soviet era. The main throne of the temple was consecrated in September 1843. The temple itself was built on the money of Cossacks from the Cossack Siberian army and local residents. The project of the church was based on the drawings of the architect Stasov V.P., the author of countless buildings in Moscow and Moscow.

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The cathedral is a slightly elongated rectangle. The height to the bell tower is 24 m. The main facade is decorated with a Doric portico with decorative details and a massive frantum. In the interior of the temple there is a beautiful iconostasis, which was designed by V.N. Gulchenko. From the central iconostasis, on both sides there are places for storing icons with particles of relics of saints: St. Seraphim of Sarov and St. Theodosius of Chernigov. The magnificent temple icons were painted immediately in the diocesan workshop. The Cathedral lives a full spiritual life: daily Divine Liturgy is served in it, weddings, baptisms, and other various Orthodox ceremonies are performed.