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St Nicholas Church, Kagan

A small domed brick Orthodox church of 1968 in the railway town of Kagan near Bukhara, with an iconostasis brought from Moscow.

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About the place

The church was built of fired brick in 1968 in the centre of Kagan's railway settlement, paid for by local donations and organised by the priest Pavel Adelgeim, who was arrested after it was finished. It was consecrated to St Nicholas in 1969.

Inside the small room, with its dome set off-centre, stands an iconostasis Adelgeim brought from the Moscow Church of the Transfiguration, which was blown up in 1964. It is a working parish about 13 km south-east of Bukhara.

Why go

  • An iconostasis rescued from a demolished Moscow church
  • A rare church built in the Soviet 1960s
  • In the railway town of Kagan

Sources (2)

  1. 1.Wikidata
  2. 2.ru.wikipedia.org

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