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Znamensky Cathedral - the heyday of the Siberian baroque

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Znamensky Cathedral in Tyumen is considered to be one of the best examples of baroque in the territory of Siberia. In addition, it is the official residence of the Metropolitan of Tobolsk. The wooden church appeared here in the middle of the XVII century in honor of the icon of Our Lady of the Sign “Znameniye”. It was painted in the 1620s and is considered to be the first primordially Siberian Orthodox icon. Although the church was twice (in 1697 and in 1766) destroyed by the fire, the icon did not suffer.

The modern stone Znamensky Cathedral was built in 1786. And in 1901 two side-chapels were added to it and one tower of the bell tower was built on it. In 1848, when Tyumen swept through the cholera, a parishioner of the Znamensky Cathedral had a dream that the procession with the icon would help in the fight against the epidemic. The move was made, the citizens continued praying to the icon, and the number of patients began decreasing. The icon was recognized as wonderworking, so they started making copies of the icon for the churches in other cities. In the chaos of the beginning of the XX century the icon was lost and now a copy of the middle of the XX century is kept in the cathedral. In 1929 a prison was set up in the temple for the transported criminals. Divine services resumed in the cathedral in October 1945.

Znamensky Cathedral - the heyday of the Siberian baroque

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