The Church of our Lady of Kazan, or the Temple with a Unique Destiny

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The Church of our Lady of Kazan in Velikiye Luki boasts a unique destiny. It not only remained active throughout all the years of the Soviet power, but also survived the Great Patriotic War. And one of the original church bells happily escaped melting in the 1920s: a nun hid it.

The Church of our Lady of Kazan was built in 1821 on the initiative of a local merchant. A brick baroque church with a step bell tower appeared in the city. Only two of the three old altar stones have survived to this day, the frescoes were renewed in the twentieth century, but the iconostasis reached our days almost unchanged. The bell, which escaped melting, was returned to the bell tower at the end of the 20th century.

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