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Marina Aleksandrovna, Olesya Leonidovna, Lyudmila Vasilievna and Elena Vladimirovna are well known to many parishioners of our church as cooker of communion bread. In winter and summer, on the eve of the holidays and on ordinary days they bake communion bread, without which the Divine workship is impossible, Communion is unthinkable.

The Priory Palace is an architectural symbol of Gatchina, its original visiting card. This unique building was erected in 1799 according to the plan of the architect N. A. Lvov for the knights of the Malta Order and is the only monument to rammed-earth construction in the late XVIII century in Russia. An outstanding educator of the XVIII century, a talented engineer and inventor N. A. Lvov proved himself in the most diverse fields.

Before the revolution, the museum was located in the Bishop’s House. Perhaps the formation began in 1740, when Joseph Nicolas Delille, the luminary of European astronomy, honored our region with his presence. The French astronomer returned through Kazan from a trip to Western Siberia, where he observed a solar eclipse. The bishop of Kazan and Sviyazhsky was Luka Konashevich.

Rober Bresson himself spent quite a long time in German captivity and tried to recreate the sensations of prisoners.

From December 1, the parish library began to operate in the New Jerusalem residence. Our library fund amount to Holy Writ, God's Law, prayer books, books that explain church worship, church sacraments, the essence of the Orthodox faith, patristic literature, the lives of saints, books on the history of the Church, secular classical literature, periodicals.