Location: F. Roosevelt street
Chapel of Saint Nicholas is located in the historic center of Yalta near embankment. It was erected in 1896 to commemorated the marriage of the last Russian Emperor Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna. Its architect P. Krasnov choose this location as a symbolic one since it was here that Nicholas I proclaimed about new status of Yalta as a city. Consecration was carried out in December of the same year by Archbishop Martinian. Saint Nicholas had a special meaning in the city. This Greek archbishop was believed to be the patron saint of all sailors, fishermen and everyone who travelled across seas. Chapel was destroyed by atheists in 1932 and new church was reconstructed in 2001.
The chapel of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker is
located in the historical center of the Crimean resort town of
Yalta, next to the seaport, on F. Roosevelt Street (former
Boulevard) and is the main decoration of the embankment.
A
small chapel, consecrated in the name of St. Nicholas, was founded
in 1896 in memory of the wedding of the future Emperor Nicholas II
and Alexandra Feodorovna. The place where the chapel was built was
not chosen by chance. It was here that Emperor Nicholas I announced
his decree on assigning the status of a city to the village of
Yalta. The chapel was designed by the famous Yalta architect of that
time P. Krasnov in the Russian style. The solemn consecration of the
chapel took place in December 1896 in the presence of Archbishop
Martinian.
Memorial plaques were mounted on the outer walls
of the Yalta chapel, with the inscription: "On September 17, 1837,
His Imperial Majesty Nicholas I, having examined the view from this
place, ordered to rename the village of Yalta into the city of
Yalta."
Several steps led to the carved arched entrance to
the chapel. Inside the chapel there was a large magnificent icon of
St. Nicholas the Wonderworker - the patron saint of fishermen,
sailors and travelers, created by S.A. Korovin.
In 1932,
during the difficult years of atheism, the chapel of St. Nicholas
was completely destroyed. Its restoration began only in May 2001 on
the same place where the old chapel stood, the author of the project
was the architect A.V. Petrova. The restored chapel of St. Nicholas
the Wonderworker has become a holy place of prayer for all people at
sea: fishermen, sailors and just travelers.