In 1881, a wooden chapel was erected on this site in memory of
Alexander II, the Russian emperor. The consecration of the
foundation stone was carried out by Archbishop Guriy (Karpov) of
Tauride and Simferopol.
The project was fully completed in
1881 in the month of March. The building was in the style of
northern Old Russian chopped architecture, with carved wooden
elements decorated with rich ornaments, with an iron cross-shaped
hipped roof. The entrance to the chapel was located on the side of
the embankment, and on the other three sides the walls were
decorated with barred windows in the shape of a cross. The chapel
was crowned with a dome - an onion on a low drum. The construction
of the chapel was completed in 1881 on 23 July. Simultaneously with
the construction, a number of images were ordered and purchased by
the church building committee. The icons were made in special
Russian icon workshops. Some of them were donated. Initially, the
chapel was located on wooden piles, but as a result of numerous
destruction as a result of the impact of the sea surf, a stone
foundation was made under it. The structure was fenced by a carved
wooden picket fence.
Unfortunately, after the Alexander
Nevsky Cathedral was built, interest in this chapel did not fade
away from the parishioners who actively attended it. The chapel from
the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral was served. The chapel on the
Embankment stood for more than half a century, but it was closed in
1932 and then dismantled as an unnecessary object.
In 2006,
on July 17, during the celebration of the memory of the Holy Royal
Martyrs by the Orthodox Church on the Yalta Embankment, the site was
consecrated for the construction of a new chapel in the name of the
Cathedral of New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia. And on September
26, 2009, the already built chapel was consecrated by the
Metropolitan of Simferopol and Crimean Lazar.