Church of the Saviour, Tyumen

The Church of the Saviour, also known as the Church of the Image of "The Saviour Not Made by Hands" (́ ́, Khram v chest' Nerukotvoryonogo Obraza Spasa) or shorter Spasskaya Church (Spasskaya Tserkov), is a church in Tyumen, Tyumen Oblast, Russia, located at Lenin Street, 43, in a crossroad between the Chelyuskintsev Street. Built in a late 18th-century Siberian Baroque and early 20th-century neo russian style, the building is one of the oldest and most expressive churches in Siberia, which is under monument protection. It is believed that the early wooden church was raised in 1586, which after several fires was reconstructed into a stable stone building in the late 17th century. The Church of the Saviour saw another two re-buildings in the late 19th century. After the 1917 October Revolution, the church was subject of confiscations of its property in 1922, and in 1930 was closed and became a momentary prison. After the failed attempt to destroy the church two years later, it has been used as an archive and a library. Nowadays the building stores material for the Tyumen Local Historical Museum, but is expected to be returned to the local eparchy in 2019.

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