The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Old Crimea and how to visit it

What to Expect and Is It Worth Visiting

The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary or simply the Assumption Church is a small but important parish church in the center of the Old Crimea. The place is sacred and visited to a greater extent by local residents, and among tourists it is almost unknown. Nevertheless, this temple has its own sad history. Emperor Nicholas II even came here at the end of the XIX century. To the right of the church gate there is a spring with drinking water (for some reason everywhere this source is called a fountain). It was built at the beginning of the XIX century by the Bulgarian P. Mikhailov. It's worth stopping by the church, if you pass by on the way, you probably shouldn't visit it specifically.

The first temple on this site was built at the end of the XVIII century, due to the carelessness of the priest in 1825, it burned down. It was rebuilt again in 1832, and in the 20s of the XX century it was looted and destroyed. In the churchyard in March 1921, cadets of the Sergeyevsky Military School were shot. Later, all the remaining buildings were destroyed to expand the bakery and the local school. The parish was restored only in 1997. During the excavations on its territory, burials of the XV century were discovered.

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