Temple of Seraphim of Sarov (Pesochny)
Saint Petersburg, Pesochny settlement, Leningradskaya Street, 10
The Church of Seraphim of Sarov is located in the center of the settlement of Pesochny, near the former Grafskaya station, on a hill among pine trees. Among the church's relics are a reliquary with the relics of Seraphim of Sarov and a reliquary with a particle of the relics of Saint Nicholas of Myra, and at the entrance, a veneration cross is installed in memory of the new martyrs, including Archpriest Nikolai Merinov. The building was fully transferred to the parish community on March 13, 1992, and in August 2000, Archpriest Philosoph Ornatsky and his sons Nikolai and Boris were canonized as saints of the whole church. The church was built by the Society for the Dissemination of Religious and Moral Enlightenment, which existed since 1890 for the spiritual enlightenment of the Russian people.