Malaya Konyushennaya st. 1-3B.
The Church of St. Catherine is a building in pseudo-Romanesque style, which houses the Evangelical Lutheran parish of ELKRAS. Located at the address: Malaya Konyushennaya street, 1, corner of the Swedish lane. Services are held regularly in Russian and Swedish.
The community was organized in 1640 in Nyenschantz. Originally part
of the Church of Sweden. After the transfer of Ingermanland to Russia
following the results of the Northern War, part of the inhabitants were
resettled in St. Petersburg. The meetings began in 1703, they were held
in a private house by pastor Yakov Maidelin.
In 1734, Empress
Anna Ioannovna presented the community with a plot in the area of modern
Nevsky Prospekt, on which the first wooden church in the name of St.
Anna was built. In 1745 the Swedish and Finnish communities split. The
Finnish community remained in the same place - now the Finnish Church of
St. Mary is located there, and the Swedes built a prayer building in a
new place, on the site of which the stone church of St. Catherine was
built in 1767. In the future, the church was repeatedly rebuilt. The
church had a parish school, shelters for boys and girls, an almshouse,
and a charitable institution. Among the parishioners of the church were
the Nobel and Lidval families, the jeweler Carl Faberge. Karl
Mannerheim, the future Russian general and president of Finland, was
married in this church.
The parish functioned until 1934, when it
was closed. Various organizations were located in the building, the last
of which was a children's and youth sports school.
The activity
of the parish was resumed in 1993. In 2005, the building was completely
handed over to the community. The Lutheran parish is considered to be
Swedish, but organizationally it is part of the ELKRAS and is not a
parish of the Church of Sweden. In addition to the Lutheran parish, the
church of St. Catherine hosts services of the community of the Church of
England.
a stone church with 300 seats, founded on May 17, 1767. Architect Yu.
M. Felten.
Consecrated May 29, 1769.
a new church with 1,200
seats laid out on December 28, 1863, designed by architect K. K.
Anderson. The building was built in pseudo-Romanesque style with a rose
window. The cost of building the building amounted to 100 thousand
rubles. Count A. Armfelt became the chief donor, and Emperor Alexander
II donated 5,000 rubles. Religious paintings were painted by Professor
N. Thiersch from Munich. An organ was also installed in the church. The
church was consecrated on November 28, 1865. The building is still in
existence.
Jacob Meidelin (until 1729)
Juhann Terne (1729)
Gustav Levanus
(1730-1749)
Isaak Hugberg (1749-1783)
Emmanuel Indrenius
(1784-1792)
Juhann Genrik Signeus (1793-1798)
Nils Adolf Donner
(1799-1800)
Karl Tavast (1801-1825)
Erik Gustaf Ehrström
(1826-1835)
Gustav Friedrich Zandt (1836-1881)
Lars Peter Reinhold
Hofren (1881-1884)
Herman Kajanus (1885-1913)
Nils Arthur Malm
(1913-1918)
Selim Hjalmari Laurikkala, (1932-1934)