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Lüneburg Heath

Russian Orthodox Wooden Church of St. Nicholas (Gifhorn)

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Russian Orthodox Wooden Church of St. Nicholas (Gifhorn)

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Russian Orthodox Wooden Church of St. Nicholas (Gifhorn)

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    September 3, 2018

    The Russian Orthodox Church on the grounds of the Gifhorn Mill Museum is a replica of a Russian wooden church. Inside the 27-meter-high church, you have the impression that you are in a cathedral with replicas of valuable icon paintings.
    Saint Nicholas is one of the most revered saints in Russia and is considered a miracle worker and patron of sailors, tailors and weavers. The high tower of the Russian Orthodox wooden church is open to the top. This makes you think you are in a cathedral and not in a small village church. The stepped church has partly gilded domes and consists of mighty beams up to twelve meters long. Over 400 cubic meters of the best larch wood were used.
    In the basement of the church, there is an exhibition of showpieces from the Moscow Patriarchate's factory: icons, oil lamps and candlesticks, vestments and embroidery, cups, baptismal vessels, Bibles and other liturgical objects for worship and church holidays. The church is used frequently by Russian Orthodox church followers in Gifhorn, but also from the wider area.
    Numerous valuable icon paintings - in the Orthodox Church it is the painted word of the Holy Scripture - decorate the walls of the church.

    The extra entrance fee here is €2.50 for adults

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      August 19, 2021

      Beautiful wooden church that houses magnificent and pompous relics. Truly awe-inspiring!
      This tour alone is worth the visit!

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        November 10, 2022

        The Russian Orthodox wooden church of St. Nicholas is located on the grounds of the mill museum, but there is a separate entrance fee.

        The church is a replica of a Russian wooden church in which replicas of numerous, valuable icon paintings can be viewed. The Russian Orthodox church has eight domes, some of which are gilded, and is 27 m high. Since the interior of the church is open to the top, it gives the impression of being in a cathedral.
        Source: stadt-gifhorn.de/sv_gifhorn/Lebenswert/Sehensw%C3%BCrdigkeiten/Russisch-orthodoxe%20Holzkirche

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          November 23, 2023

          The 27-meter-high wooden church with eight gilded domes is a replica of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Transfiguration of Christ from 1765 in the village of Kozlyatyevo. It is dedicated to Saint Nicholas and was consecrated on November 24, 1995 by the Moscow Patriarch Alexy II. The church houses an exhibition of liturgical objects from the Patriarchate's factory. It includes icons, oil lamps, candlesticks, vestments, embroidery, baptismal vessels, Bibles and golden pictures, some of which are painted there. An interior tour of the building decorated with icon paintings costs an additional entrance fee. The bells of the Minden Cathedral, cast in 1948, hang in front of the church.
          Source: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationales_M%C3%BChlenmuseum_Gifhorn#Russische_Stabkirche

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            August 19, 2021

            Beautiful 🤩 old wood 🪵 church ⛪️ with golden onions! Great eye-catcher

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              September 18, 2021

              An extra fee is required for the visit.

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                July 30, 2023

                The basilica, built in the traditional Russian wooden style, is 27 m high.
                It is decorated with eight domes, some of which are gilded.
                It is possible to visit the interior.

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                  August 20, 2025

                  Wow, what a wonderful church. It costs an extra 2 euros, but it's definitely worth it. For me, it's the highlight.

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