Panteleimonovskaya church, Poltava

The park is named after Kotlyarevskyi in Poltava is a temple and a healer Panteleimon. Earlier this area was the city cemetery, which was located and operated Vsesvyatskaya cemetery church. It is known due to the employee in it at the end of the 19th century priest priest Gapon, who was the leader of the Christian trade union of St. Petersburg. He is known for organizing mass marches working day "Bloody Sunday."
Vsesvyatskaya Church in Soviet times was destroyed. In 1999, on the same grounds by decision of Poltava city authorities began construction of the church of St. Panteleimon. Consecration of the church took place on 19 September 2000, and the first Divine Liturgy was held on September 23.
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