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Church Attractions In Pushkin

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Pushkin is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia. Urban localitiesPushkin, Saint Petersburg, a town in Pushkinsky District of Saint PetersburgRural localitiesPushkin, Rostov Oblast, a khutor in Proletarskoye Rural Settlement of Krasnosulinsky District of Rostov Oblast
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  • 1. Saint Sophia Cathedral Pushkin
    Pushkin is a municipal town in Pushkinsky District of the federal city of St. Petersburg, Russia, located 24 kilometers south from the center of St. Petersburg proper, and its railway station, Tsarskoye Selo, is directly connected by railway to the Vitebsky Rail Terminal of the city. Population: 92,889 .Pushkin was founded in 1710 as an imperial residence named Tsarskoye Selo and received status of a town in 1808. The first public railways in Russia, Tsarskoye Selo Railways, were opened here in 1837 and connected the town to the capital St. Petersburg. After the October Revolution, the town was renamed to Detskoye Selo . Its name was further changed in 1937 to Pushkin to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the death of the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin. The town contains an ensemble of t...
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  • 2. Church of St. John the Baptist Pushkin
    The St. John the Baptist Church It is a Catholic church located in integrated in the Greater St. Petersburg, 25 kilometers from the northern capital of Rusia. Depends on the Archdiocese of Moscow and the deanery northwest. The first Catholic church in Tsarskoye Selo was built in 1811, in a property of the master of ceremonies of the court , the commander Mezonaïev; but the church was not sufficient for the needs of the community. For this the Emperor Alexander authorized the construction of a new church in another land donated by him. Finally it was built in neoclassical style between 1823 and 1825 by Domenico Adamini Leone and architects. The first stone was blessed 24 of July 1825, feast of St. John the Baptist, with the presence of the Minister of Education and the church was consecrat...
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