Roman Catholic Church in Kazan

What to Expect and Is It Worth Visiting

The Catholic Church of the exaltation of the Holy Cross or simply Vozdvizhenskaya church is the only Catholic Church in Kazan. It was built in the period from 2005 to 2008 to replace the church, originally built in 1858, because even then in the city lived quite a lot of Catholics, mainly Germans and Baltics. The old church was closed during the Soviet period, and its building was transferred to the A. N. Tupolev Technical University. It was equipped with a wind tunnel, and it turned out that it was cheaper to build a church in a new place than to restore a new one, which was done. Remarkably, the new church was illuminated exactly 150 years after the lighting of the old one.

From a tourist point of view, the church is interesting as an architectural object. It can be viewed from the outside and freely get inside, the main thing is not to disturb the believers of the parish with a flash and a click of the camera shutter. The ministers are friendly, and even welcome interest in their church.

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