Tours and travels in Kostanay region.

“Christianity can become a living truth for successive generations only if thinkers constantly appear among them who, remaining in the Spirit of Jesus, will be able to express faith in him in terms of the worldview of their era. Becoming a traditional faith, which people should simply accept for granted, Christianity loses its connection with the spiritual life of its time and the ability to take a new form in accordance with a new worldview. When the polemic between tradition and thought ceases, Christian truth and Christian truthfulness suffer."

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Orthodox churches of Kostanay region.

St. Nicholas Church is located at an altitude of 166 meters above sea level, located 350 meters northwest of Lake Presnoe, in the central part of the village of Presnogorykovka in the Uzunkol district in the northeastern part of the Kostanay region.
St. Nicholas Church is the oldest Orthodox church in the Kostanay region. A huge church of rubble stone and baked brick was built in 1799 with donations from local residents. In the cemetery near the walls of the church is the grave of the head of the Omsk regional administration, Lieutenant General V.I. de Saint Laurent, who died suddenly in 1835 while inspecting the region.
During the construction of the fortress walls, a special solution was used - with the addition of egg white and alabaster. The church, according to archival data, "had two chapels - in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker and the Kazan Mother of God, surrounded by a wooden fence."
In 1935, the temple was closed and turned into a warehouse for grain storage. The bell tower was destroyed in the 1940s. For many years the building housed various institutions. Since 1991, the building was transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church and the restoration of St. Nicholas Church began with donations from believers.
Geographic coordinates of St. Nicholas Church: N54 ° 29'54 E65 ° 45'40.38"

Authority:
https://kraeved-kst.kz/int-map/ru.php

Photos by:
Alexander Petrov.