St. Nicholas Church in Kronstadt

The Church of St. Nicholas in Kronstadt is a Lutheran church that was the center of the Retusaari parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ingria. The Lutheran community on Kotlin Island has a long history dating back to the Swedish chapel parish of Ture, and the first wooden church in the name of St. Elizabeth appeared here in 1718. In 1925, after the closure of the Elizabethan church, its property was transferred to the Church of St. Nicholas, which continued to operate with interruptions until 1924. For a long time, the parish was served by Pastor Otto Reinhold Streng, who also served as a preacher for the Baltic Fleet division.