{"id":6770,"date":"2021-12-10T11:30:44","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T09:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tarinapankki.fi\/?post_type=citadela-item&p=6770"},"modified":"2023-05-03T16:48:35","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T13:48:35","slug":"suistamon-kirkko","status":"publish","type":"citadela-item","link":"https:\/\/tarinapankki.fi\/en\/item\/suistamon-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Estuary Church"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Orthodox Church of St. Nicholas of the Estuary is located in surrendered Karelia. It was the main church of the former Suistamo Orthodox parish. The church was inaugurated on May 17, 1844, and has been designed by Carl Ludvig Engel.                         <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The project to build St. Nicholas Church in Suistamo was started in 1828 when Suodamo's priest Feodot Lvov wrote to the Spiritual Government of Finland about the dilapidated space of Suistamo's churches. The Finnish Spiritual Government ordered a public assembly to be held in Suistamo on the construction of the church. The Holy Synod had also given permission to build the church in 1831, and the building drawings for the church had been drawn up at the Intendent's office. However, construction work could not begin as the church drawings disappeared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The length of the church was 34 m, the width 20 m at the cross-section and 10 m at the trunk.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

In 1834 it was thought that the original drawings would have remained in the possession of the former church guard, but two years later the governor of Vyborg County wrote that the drawings and cost estimate had remained in the office of the metropolitan of St. Petersburg. The governor obtained the new drawings from the office of the Intendent, and the Senate approved the new drawings in 1837.<\/p>\n\n\n\n