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