Church-School of the Ascension (Kolpino)

The Ascension Church-School in Kolpino at 4 Lenin Avenue is the only church in the city that has survived from the Tsarist era. After 1918, the temple was assigned to the Kolpino Trinity Cathedral, and its premises were used as a sports hall for the Spartak club, a reading room, and a cinema ticket office, while the bell tower of the building was dismantled in the early 1920s. On May 31, 1995, Bishop Simon (Getya) of Tikhvin fully consecrated the restored three-altar church, the main altar of which is dedicated to the Ascension of the Lord.