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Elista residents are proud of their main Kalmyk Christian church - the Kazan Cathedral. It was erected in 1996 in the south of Elista and consecrated one year later by His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia who made the temple with priceless gifts: the icon of the Kazan Mother of God and the Blakherna Icon of the Mother of God.

Annually on November 4 all Kalmykia celebrates the Day of Kazan Cathedral Cathedral.

Since the middle of the 19th century there was a Christian church of the Exaltation of the Cross of the Lord, burnt in 1896 and rebuilt a bit later. And in 1933 it was banned and stolen. Since the 40-ies. The last century in the city again began the divine services held in the parish school, which was built in 1879 next to the broken church of the Exaltation of the Cross of the Lord. The Elistinians put the iconostasis in it, brought the icons saved from the destroyed church, decorated the roof with a dome, and the divine services resumed.

A magnificent octagonal temple of extraordinary beauty with one dome and a rotunda on top of which a cross was erected, built in Byzantine spirit using elements of the late baroque.

And today the ancient Holy Cross Church with the icon "The Appearance of Jesus Christ to the Prayers" in 1946 and the miraculous icon "The Burning Bush" operates near the Kazan Cathedral in one hundred the face of Kalmykia, most of the icons of which were written by the spouses of Popov.

The magnificent octagonal temple of extraordinary beauty with one dome and a rotunda, at the top of which a cross was erected, was erected in Byzantine spirit using elements of the late Baroque.

The entrance of the temple is decorated with columns, and above he is a spherical bell tower, in which there are seven bells. The crosses and two small domes above the rotunda, made in Volgodonsk from stainless steel, were covered with gold leaf.

In the cathedral, believers can pray and kneel before the holy relics of Nicholas the Wonderworker, Innocent, the Apostle Timothy. It contains a capsule with Jerusalem land, icons of Kazan Mother of God and "The Appearance of Jesus Christ to the Prayers" and many other shrines.

Kazan Cathedral, the administrative building and the Cross Exaltation Church belong to the church complex of the Elista and Kalmyk diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church. In the celebration of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, or on the day of the Reverend Savvatiy, Zosima and Herman of Solovki, all diocesan priests participate in the cathedral services. Every year miraculous powers and icons are brought here and brought to this occasion.

A nice clean green garden of Sergius of Radonezh, where there is a monument to a monk who converted a monk in Northern Russia and became the founder of more than one monastery, is broken down.

Monument was established and ennobled the territory of the square thanks to the donations of the faithful diocese.

Kazan Cathedral, built according to the standard project of the 18th century, is probably the most beautiful church in Kalmykia, where there are always a lot of parishioners and, of course, of tourists who pass such gems of the city is simply impossible to pass!

How to get there

Address: Elista, Sergiy Radonezhsky street, 97

Schedule of services

In the Kazan Cathedral of Elista every day: Divine Liturgy at 7:30, evening service at 16:00