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St Alexander Nevsky Church, Tashkent

An Orthodox church of 1903–1904 in Tashkent's Cemetery No. 1, with a gilded carved iconostasis; it stayed open through the Soviet years.

Ensembles1903–1904About 20 minutes to see

About the place

The first stone was laid in December 1902, and the church was built in 1903–1904 with funds from the military administration of Turkestan, to a design by the engineer Alexander Burmeister. The merchant Nikolai Ivanov paid for the carved and gilded wooden iconostasis.

It is said to be the only church in Tashkent and all of Central Asia that was never closed in Soviet times. It stands inside Cemetery No. 1 and is a working parish.

Why go

  • Carved and gilded wooden iconostasis
  • Never closed in the Soviet period
  • Set within the old Russian cemetery

Sources (4)

  1. 1.Wikidata
  2. 2.ru.wikipedia.org
  3. 3.uz.wikipedia.org
  4. 4.openstreetmap.org

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