Catherine Cathedral

The Cathedral of St. Catherine in the city of Pushkin was consecrated on December 6, 1840, in the presence of Nicholas I and Tsesarevich Alexander Nikolaevich. In 1917, Metropolitan Benjamin served the liturgy here, and Priest Ioann Kochurov was killed by the Bolsheviks after participating in a religious procession. The church was closed in 1938; a monument to Lenin was erected in its place in 1960, but 22 years later, the rebuilt cathedral was reconsecrated by Patriarch Kirill.