Pokrovskaya Church (Nevsky Forest Park)

The Intercession Church in the Neva Forest Park of the city of Kolpino belongs to the deanery of the Patriarchal Compound of the Moscow Diocese. The foundation of the church, solemnly laid on October 4, 2005, contains stones from the foundation of the burnt-down Intercession Church of the Vytegra Pogost. Among the shrines of the church are the icons of the Dormition of the Mother of God, the Passion-Bearers Boris and Gleb, "The Savior on Birch Bark," a copy of the icon from the Zvenigorod Rank, and the Solovetsky Cross, while the church icon of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos is a 21st-century copy, whereas the original is kept in the storage of the Russian Museum. The complex project also includes a parish house, which is a copy of the Mankin House of 1889 from the village of Kaskesruchey in the Petrozavodsky Uyezd.