Pokrovsky Cathedral (Gatchina)

The Intercession Cathedral in Gatchina was founded at the corner of Hospital and Mariinskaya streets on the land provided by merchant Kozma Karpov for the courtyard of the Pyatigorsk Mother of God Convent. The main altar in the name of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos was consecrated by Bishop Nazarius of Gdov on August 6, 1896, and the first rector of the church from 1897 to 1910 was Priest Alexiy Blagoveshchensky. The architecture of the building includes a frieze with motifs of keel-shaped arches and semicircular arches, located below the roof level of each dome and the main roof. In 1918, a side chapel in the name of John the Baptist and the martyr Lydia was consecrated in the basement, and in 1996 a lower church in honor of Saint John of Kronstadt was arranged there.