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This small church stands on the same small island of the river. Vuoksa of the Leningrad Region, not far from the Finnish border – near the village of Vasilyevo Priozersky district. And although similar there are many island temples in the world, this one is a unique church in its kind, because it stands in the middle of the water on a monolithic rock that allowed to make this temple of St. Andrew the First-Called in the Book of Records Guinness.
And for everyone who has ever visited these parts and their own eyes saw this charming church surrounded by stunning in its beauty of the northern nature of Russia, this temple it seems unique not even because it stands on a rock in the middle of the water. It seems that he came down from the pages of the good Russian fairy tales – this is what strikes in the first place!
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This amazing church was built recently – in 2000, thanks to which an especially unremarkable area suddenly became a place of pilgrimage for tourists, and the temple itself is a great local a tourist attraction. Believers come here, of course, because in a church on Vuoksa you can get married, get baptized, and just take part in the regular services that take place in the temple. Although this church is still not for tourist entertainment, but for a soul longing for solitude in the world and unity with Nature. A maybe – and with the whole universe …
More recently, it was possible to get to the church only on boat, but today a bridge has already been laid to the island, so get there to the temple at present is not difficult if, Of course, you know the schedule when believers are welcome here and everyone who wants to touch this little secret of Being.
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The idea of creating such a unique Russian temple was born in head of a professor at Herzen University, became an architect talented artist Andrei Rotinov (now deceased), and the sponsor is a local summer resident Andrei Lyamkin. Probably because the church was built by two Andrews, the temple was named after the apostle St. Andrew the First-Called. The church was built according to the ancient canons of Russian wooden architecture in the form of the original figure of eight – following the example Church of the Ascension, which stands in the village of Kolomenskoye.
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