Anglican Church on the English Embankment. Anglican Church of Jesus Christ (along the English Embankment)

Second address: English Embankment, 56
The building of the former Anglican Church of Jesus Christ. There are 3 apartments in the building; a decision was made to resettle them by way of "renovation".
Back in the 16th century, the British (the first Europeans) established regular trade relations with Russia, establishing the English Trading Company for this purpose. The Russian authorities did not impose any restrictions in the area of ​​faith for them. In June 1723, the trading post of this company moved from Moscow to the new capital, where the British for almost a whole century - especially during the reign of Catherine II - were monopolists in foreign trade.
Together with the trading post, most of the merchants moved to St. Petersburg, forming the core of a small and closed colony, numbering 1,500 people at the end of the 18th century. First, the British prayed in the chapel in the house of the merchant Netleton on Galernaya Street, then in the Lutheran church in the courtyard of Vice Admiral K. Cruis, where they had their own pastor since 1719. In 1723, together with Pastor Thomas Konfett, who had moved from Moscow, they formed their own community, hiring the house of the late Field Marshal Count BP Sheremetev on the Lower (English) embankment of the Neva. In 1753 this building became the property of the English consul and trading post of a trading company. The interior of the three-storey house has been finished in "Italian style".
The church in this house was located on the second floor, in a two-story hall with seven windows along the facade. The first service in it took place on March 6, 1754. The carved mahogany altar was decorated with a copy of the painting by P. Rubens "Descent from the Cross". There were four columns and a pulpit in front of the altar. A separate seat was set aside next to the pulpit for the British ambassador and his family. There was an organ in the hall. By the beginning of the 19th century, the parish consisted of 2,700 people.
In 1814, D. Quarenghi began rebuilding the old mansion in the Empire style, using his own project, drawn up in 1783. This was one of the last works of the architect. The center of the front facade was highlighted by a projection, decorated with Corinthian half-columns and crowned with a triangular pediment with allegorical statues of Faith, Hope and Love. The first floor was occupied by the premises of the pastor, and the second - a two-story hall with choirs. The architect decorated the hall with columns and pilasters of the Corinthian order, covered with artificial marble. The interior was lit by four gilded bronze chandeliers. The organ was reconstructed by the master G. L. Friedrich. On December 5, 1815, the first service took place in the renovated church.
Acad. A. X. Pel in 1860 redecorated the church hall. In 1876-1878 citizens. Ing. FK Boltengagen, partially changing the design of the facade, laid down the windows of the second light in the hall and increased the height of the windows of the first light. An organ made in 1877 by Brindley & Hoster was installed in the wall niche. The windows were decorated with multicolored stained-glass windows with images of saints, made in England by the Heaton company. The church acquired particular splendor at the end of the 19th century, when, at the expense of wealthy parishioners (their names are indicated on the boards), the altar was decorated with mosaic panels "Christ the Almighty", "Annunciation" and "Nativity of Christ", also works of English masters.
In 1898, the British asked for a place to build another church, although their colony had by this time decreased to 2,000 people. Since 1901, the parish had a small almshouse for women on the 8th line of Vasilievsky Island.
Parishioners were buried at the Anglican section of the Smolensk and Mitrofanievsky cemeteries.
The last pastor of the embassy church on the waterfront was Bousfield Lombard.
In connection with the departure of the majority of the British, the church was closed in 1919 and its archives were taken to London. By the decree of the Presidium of the Leningrad City Council dated April 17, 1939, the building of the temple was transferred to the Public Library, it housed the City Travel and Excursion Bureau for a long time.
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The building was built in the 1730s.
The Anglican Church of Jesus Christ was organized in 1723 by members of the English community in the rented house of the Sheremetevs. In 1753 the building was acquired by the British Consul.

In 1814-1815. the building was rebuilt according to the project of architect. J. Quarenghi in the style of strict classicism.
The main façade with rusticated walls was designed by Quarenghi in his characteristic manner: the center of the façade was highlighted by a risalite, processed with six semi-columns and pilasters. The risalit was crowned with a triangular pediment with three statues of saints.

In 1877-1878. the decoration of the facade has been changed - architect. F.K.Boltengagen.
In 1919 the church was closed.

The ground floor was occupied by the pastor's quarters. The church was located on the second floor, in a two-story hall with seven windows along the facade. The carved mahogany altar was decorated with a copy of the painting by P. Rubens "Descent from the Cross".
The bright prayer hall is decorated with columns and pilasters of the Corinthian order, the walls are covered with artificial marble.
In 1860 the hall was redecorated - architect. A. Kh. Pel.
At the end of the XIX century. the interior of the church is decorated with stained-glass windows.
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Archival materials about her were taken to London after the revolution, and Russian historians have not yet seen them. And I would very much like to learn more about the construction and existence of this wonderful monument of sacred architecture in our city.

After the war, the city's excursion bureau was located here for almost half a century. The Anglican community owned it for over a century and a half. And the first owner of the site was Lieutenant Ivan Petrovich Sheremetev (? - 1735) from a famous and ancient family. This was the son of Pyotr Petrovich, the younger brother of the famous Field Marshal Boris Petrovich, who returned our region to Russia. In 1717, Ivan Petrovich bought half of the plot "from the clerk of the Admiralty Provisions Commission Fedot Tavleev, and the other, from whom it was bought, is not written." Two years later, Sheremetev reported: "There is nothing to build the hut shelves with, the hollow water has taken away the forest." These chambers were probably built in the 1720s, but they did not come to stone because of the early death of the owner.

Since the captain-commander had no children, his property was inherited first by his cousin, Peter Borisovich Sheremetev, and then by Anna Yakovlevna Sheremeteva (1682 - 1746), nee Princess Dolgorukova. She was the widow of Alexei Petrovich Sheremetev, the brother of the first owner of this site, and already had a residential building nearby on the embankment. Apparently, it was under Peter Borisovich, the son and owner of all the wealth of the field marshal, and it was between 1735 - 1738. a stone building was erected on the basements, similar to a palazzo. It had three floors, crowned with an attic with a coat of arms. They entered the house along the high gangway located in the center.

Seven years after the death of Anna Yakovlevna, her sons Peter and Sergey Alekseevich sold for 3,500 rubles. the inherited house to Baron Jacob (Jacob) von Wolff (1698 - 1759) - British resident minister and wealthy banker, who had previously lived in it with his companion Matthew Schiffner. The Schifner & Wolf company flourished thanks to good connections with the court. She, by the way, exported pounds of rhubarb - the best laxative at that time.

When the baron died, his nephew and heir, also Yakov, resold the mansion in April 1761 for only 500 rubles. two Englishmen: Consul Robert Netleton and Hugh Atkins, a member of the British Trading Post, which was in charge of the church affairs of the English colony. The ridiculous selling price is due to the fact that worship was already taking place in the building for the Anglican community. From now on, for a century and a half, it became a church house, which was visited by most of the English who lived in St. Petersburg or visited it.

After the interior was redone, on March 6, 1754, chaplain Daniel Dumaresque held the first service in a large two-story hall. Dumaresque knew Russian, communicated with the historian G.F. Miller and M.V. Lomonosov, contributed a lot to the Russian-English scientific exchange and was elected an honorary member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. Two subsequent chaplains, John King and William Tooke, were also capable scientists and during their long-term ministry in the 18th century made a great contribution to acquainting England with Russia, not only politically, but also culturally. In particular, King wrote and published an extensive work "Rites and Ceremonies of the Greek Church in Russia", which was considered fundamental in his homeland for a long time. Famous capital Englishmen were married in the church: in 1794 the breeder Charles Byrd, in 1795 - the architect William Geste, in 1797 - the engineer Charles Gascoigne.

The English colony grew (at the beginning of the 19th century there were 2,700 people), and the baroque building no longer corresponded to its social role. The restructuring project was entrusted to the famous G. Quarenghi, who chose a typical classicist scheme for himself: the center of the building is decorated with a portico of six adjacent composite columns. It is set on a protruding ground floor and is completed by a triangular pediment with three allegorical statues. In the interior, the architect used Corinthian columns and pilasters covered with artificial marble. The restructuring, which affected the entire site, took place in 1814-1816.

After 60 years, the parishioners decided to update the interior decoration, for which, at the direction of the architect F.K.Boltengagen, the skylight windows were laid, and colored stained-glass windows with the figures of the apostles brought from England appeared in the lower ones. Some of the walls were decorated with ornamental painting, painting filled the ceiling. Eclecticism has replaced the Empire style. Later, the Art Nouveau style made its contribution in the form of mosaic panels on the Gospel themes.

The temple remained the center of the spiritual and social life of the capital English all the time, although their number was slowly decreasing. A rich library, a kindergarten, a small almshouse and a charitable society worked under him. The British, as always, kept themselves apart and did not stay idle in St. Petersburg. Coming to work, they sometimes stayed in a church house, judging by this announcement: "One young man from the British wants to take to any house to teach children English ..." ("SPb Vedomosti". 1810, No. 71). Similar advertisements throughout the 19th century were printed by gardeners, stewards, physicians, buttresses, governesses, bookkeepers and other in-demand immigrants from Britain.

In 1919, the church was closed, most of the parishioners were repatriated. The premises were given to the Public Library, and after the war, the City Tour Bureau settled there for a long time. In 2003, the former church was transferred to the Conservatory, which planned to open an organ hall in it. The damaged organ and the preserved interiors were subject to restoration, but it still has not even begun. The empty building cannot be returned to local Anglicans - there are no more than a hundred of them in the city, mostly foreigners. They are now praying in a Swedish church, guided by visiting chaplains. Not only to restore, but even to maintain a huge building, a tiny and poor community is not able to.

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Anglican Church of Jesus Christ (56, English Embankment)
An inconspicuous building with impressive interiors was built on the Promenade des Anglais in 1811 by the architect Giacomo Quarenghi. From the day of opening until 1919, it served as the parish of the Church of England in St. Petersburg. Today it is one of the many urban buildings that have now lost their true purpose. In 1939, the parish was closed to parishioners, and a little later the building housed the City Tour Bureau. Since then, the once church premises began to be used as an assembly hall.

Tower of the Griffins (7th line of VO, 16)
Another name for the structure is the Digital Tower. It was built in the 18th century. Almost every brick in the tower is numbered. Researchers still cannot figure out the true purpose of these numbers. According to legend, Dr. Pel, who lived here at that time, was engaged in alchemy. He deduced the code of the universe and wrote it down on the walls of the tower. The code was guarded by mythical creatures - griffins, which the doctor bred in the tower.

Love tree (Bolshoy prospect VO, 106)
The tree "grew" in the Opochinin's garden. It is made in the shape of a heart, which consists of red metal leaves. The tree is popular among newlyweds: newlyweds hang locks on it as a sign of a strong marriage.

Carlson's House (50 Fontanka River Embankment)
Surely in childhood, everyone dreamed of finding the roof on which "a man in his prime of life" lives. As it turned out, his attic is located in St. Petersburg - on the roof of the theater, which is called “Carlson's House”.

Museum of Freud's Dreams

Excursions are regularly held here, telling about the life of the psychologist and seer Sigmund Freud, about the basics of psychoanalytics and the interpretation of dreams. The museum exposition is located in two small rooms, but this does not imply its dignity - you can spend a lot of time here solving the secrets of mysterious objects.

Monument "iPhone" (Exchange line, 14)
In January 2013, a memorial monument to Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, appeared in ITMO's courtyard on the Exchange Line on Vasilyevsky Island. An unusual monument is a fourth-generation 188 cm iPhone. The huge memorial is interactive; a variety of information and media materials are hidden in its depths. By the way, the monument is giving away free Wi-Fi.

Health Bench (20, Griboyedov Canal Embankment)
Petersburg smokers will not be able to smoke a cigarette on this bench: it is so distorted that it is impossible to sit on it, let alone smoke. The shop was installed as part of an anti-smoking campaign: behind the bench there is a convincing poster about the dangers of the habit.

Violin square (Kamennoostrovsky pr., 26)
There are eight stone violins in the park named after the composer Andrey Petrov. Each violin is an artistic symbol:
The entrance to the square is guarded by a sphinx violin - a symbol of preservation of musical heritage,


- violin woman - a symbol of inspiration, Muse of the composer,

- violin - chair - composer's throne

- apple violin - a symbol of temptation by music

- the swan violin is a symbol of musical excellence


- violin shoe - a symbol of experiment in music

- violin - gramophone - a symbol of musical classics

In the 90s, when they wanted to build up the park, the residents of the house invited famous people, and they planted young trees to save the park from building up. Andrey Petrov also planted a tree. When the composer died, in 2006 the square was named after him. And in the fall of 2008, the square was solemnly opened after reconstruction - with installed violins-sculptures.

Chess yard (Zagorodny prospect, 28)
One of the playgrounds in St. Petersburg is made in the form of a red-green chessboard. There are metal chess pieces on it.

The temple was created with donations from the people as a monument to the sailors who died in the Russo-Japanese War. The fundraising committee was chaired by the Greek queen Olga Konstantinovna, and the construction committee was chaired by her brother, Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich Romanov (better known as "K.R.").

302,888 rubles were collected for the construction. 73 kopecks. (which is surprising, but during the construction we met the estimate and even saved a little - the construction cost 277,723 rubles 19 kopecks). On the initiative of Admiral IK Grigorovich (he soon became Minister of the Navy), the place for the temple was chosen on the territory of the Novo-Admiralteyskiy plant.


The author of the project was the architect M.M. Peretyatkovich, who chose the Dmitrovsky Cathedral and the Church of the Intercession-on-Nerl as prototypes. The walls of the temple were decorated with carvings, the author of which was the sculptor B. M. Mikeshin. SN Smirnov became the chief civil engineer. It is curious that A.G. Dzhorogov, known for his participation in , with his project of a crematorium in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra, as well as .

There were two temples in the building - an upper and a lower one. The lower temple was decorated with frescoes (author - M.M. Adamovich)


Mosaics were used to decorate the upper temple. In the altar part there was a mosaic according to the sketches of N. A. Bruni (made in Germany at the "Pul and Wagner" factory), depicting Christ walking on the waters.


Three more mosaics were made according to V.M. Vasnetsov's sketches by his daughter, T.V. Vasnetsova. Two of them - "Prayer for the Cup" and "Carrying the Cross", adorned the columns of the temple.


Another - "Savior not made by hands", was located above the gates of the belfry.


On May 15, 1910, on the anniversary of the Battle of Tsushima, the ceremony of laying the foundation for the temple took place. And on July 31, 1911, the temple was consecrated.



Inside the temple there were memorial plaques with the names of all the fallen sailors (there were about 12 thousand of them in total).

Unfortunately, in 1932, the temple was blown up, the clergy, as well as many members of the "twenty" were repressed.


In 1990, the executive committee of the October District Council of Leningrad registered the charter of the Church Restoration Fund. Donations from the people were collected, for which the chapel of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker was built on the site of the destroyed church in 2000-2003.



The author of her project is the architect D. A. Butyrin


In the pavilion near the temple, you can now see the preserved mosaics (they were kept in the Russian Museum).

P.S. Saturday 28 Septemberthere will be an excursion"Vyborg side".
Among other things, we will see:
Sampsonievsky Cathedral - a mansion, a people's house, a tenement house and a residential colony of the Nobels - Baburinsky and Bateninsky residential areas - a kitchen factory in the Vyborgsky district - a residential town of the Polytechnic Institute - a house of specialists on Lesnoy Prospekt - a school on Kantemirovskaya Street - industrial buildings built by leading architects of Art Nouveau K Schmidt, N. Vasiliev, V. Kosyakov.

When foreign ships come to St. Petersburg, the deck of which is open to the public, for example, during a sailing regatta, it is usually deserted English embankment filled with people. No, no, but the gaze of visitors falls on a small chapel at the very end of the embankment, already behind the fence "Admiralty shipyards".

Few people know the history of its appearance. it chapel of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker erected in memory of the temple that stood here from 1909 to 1932, and about its contents.

Church of Christ the Savior in memory of the Gethsemane Struggle and St. Nicholas the Wonderworker ("Savior on the Waters") was erected in memory of Russian sailors. On the walls of the temple, the dead Russian sailors for the entire existence of the Russian fleet were named by name.

The initiative to create such a church came from Captain Ignatius, even before the completion of the construction of the deceased in Tsushima battle... Thus, his name appeared on the walls "Savior on the Waters" along with other names of the participants in the battle, of whom there were more than 5,000.

This was the last decisive naval battle Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905, during which the Russian squadron was completely defeated. Most of the ships were sunk or heroically sunk by the crews of their ships, only four managed to reach the Russian ports.

Funds for the construction of the temple were collected throughout the country by both ordinary people and titled persons. In the appeal calling for donations, the temple was compared to a farewell handful of earth, to a "mass grave."

The prototype for the temple that was being created was Church of the Intercession on the Nerl- a monument of architecture of Vladimir-Suzdal Rus. When designing, the architect adhered to the proportions of the Church of the Intercession, only increasing the main dimensions by 1.5 times.

The creation plan was entrusted MM. Peretyatkovich... Construction began in March 1910, and on September 14, the cross was raised and consecrated. Mosaic works were carried out according to drawings ON. Bruni and V.M. Vasnetsova.

Neither the stone nor the cross will tell where they lay
To the glory of the Russian flag,
Only the waves of the sea will glorify forever
Heroic death of "Varyag"!

Crew feat cruiser "Varyag", who entered into an unequal battle with a whole squadron of the Japanese fleet, even admired the enemy - after the Russo-Japanese war, the Japanese government created a museum in memory of the Varyag heroes in Seoul and awarded its commander Vsevolod Rudneva Order of the Rising Sun.

In Russia, a symbolic "mass grave" - ​​a temple "Spas-on-Waters" was blown up in 1932, under the pretext of expanding the territory of the "Admiralty shipyards".

There is a legend that the entire coast Novo-Admiralteisky Canal and Not you was strewn with bat smalt, people came here to take a "sacred stone". But the miracle was that the mosaic panels were not damaged by the explosion. Previously considered lost, they were discovered in the vaults of the Russian Museum in 1995.

In the same year, the architect YES. Butyrin prepared a project for the restoration of the temple and the construction of a chapel. In 2003, the chapel was consecrated and donated church and sea relics, which were kept in the families of the descendants of Russian naval officers.
Currently, memorial services for the dead sailors are regularly performed in the chapel.

After the trip of Peter I to England in 1698, the flow of British subjects invited by the tsar to Russia sharply increased. At the beginning of the 18th century. the British formed their congregation, and in 1723 the English Factory moved to St. Petersburg. At this time, an Anglican church appeared on Galernaya Street, which had about 300 parishioners. The three-storey stone house on the site of the house number 56 on the Promenade des Anglais was built between 1735-1738. and belonged to Prince Peter Borisovich Sheremetev. In 1747, through the British Consul General, Baron Jacob Wolfe, the Factory informed the London Russian campaign of its desire to build a new chapel and a chaplain's house. Empress Elizabeth assisted in the search for a plot, and in 1753 the British resident minister and banker Baron Wolfe announced the purchase of the house of Prince Sheremetev. After the necessary alterations in the building, the church was opened in March 1754. A spacious prayer hall, decorated in Italian style, was located on the second floor of the house. Even then, it was two-story, with two rows of windows, so from the front facade the building looked like a three-story building. In front of the carved mahogany altar, surrounded by railings, there were four columns, a pulpit and a wooden staircase with artistic carvings leading to it. On the eastern (altar) wall of the nave hung marble slabs: in the center - the tablets of the Mosaic commandments, on the left - the Lord's Prayer "Our Father", on the right - the Symbol of Faith. Opposite the pulpit there were places for the English envoy with his retinue ... By 1790, the building on the Promenade des Anglais was already registered as the English Church. By the 1810s. the size of the Anglican community in the northern capital increased significantly, and it became necessary to reconstruct the church building. In 1814, according to the projects drawn up by Giacomo Quarenghi, work began on the reconstruction of the building. Thanks to the drawings and engravings preserved in Italy, made from the drawings of Quarenghi and published after the death of the architect by his son, one can judge the original intention of the author. Using the building of the English Chapel, facing the embankment of the Neva River and two small outbuildings on Galernaya Street, the architect connected them with different-sized service buildings located along the perimeter of the courtyard, and created a single magnificent complex of buildings from the English Embankment to Galernaya Street. The facade of the building overlooking the Neva was designed in the manner usual for that time. The central risalit had a portico with 4 columns and 2 Corinthian pilasters. The risalit ended with a smooth triangular pediment with three sculptural figures at the corners: "Faith", "Hope", "Mercy". The central axis of the building was emphasized by a semicircular window in the basement and two figures of sphinxes on pedestals on the sides of this window. In 1824, the author of a pamphlet about the English Factory in Russia wrote: "... The Factory expanded the church, chaplain's residence, library and other services and furnished in a manner that reflects the honor of the English nation." The chaplain's apartment was on the first floor of the building, right below the church hall. The walls of the church hall were broken with pilasters and columns of the Corinthian order. An altar was located to the east. The painting "Crucifixion" was framed by a stucco portal with archangels at the top. A semicircular salt with marble steps was placed between two columns. From the south and north of the "Crucifixion" in the walls there were fireplace stoves with figures of saints above them. In the center of the longitudinal northern wall was a richly decorated wooden carved pulpit, opposite it in the southern wall was the seat of the English ambassador with a canopy and the British royal coat of arms. In 1860, the academician of architecture Alexander Khristoforovich Pel built on the side wings of the second floor, and also made the main entrance to the church building from the embankment. The new decoration of the altar is a specially made copy of Peter Paul Rubens' large-scale painting "Descent from the Cross" (from the original, now in the State Hermitage Museum). In connection with the upcoming jubilee of Queen Victoria, who was the head of the Anglican Church, in 1876 the English community invited the civil engineer Fyodor Karlovich Boltengagen for the next reconstruction of the church. Work under his leadership was carried out in 1877-1878. In general, he retained Quarenghi's plan, but removed the windows of the third tier from the main facade, respectively increasing the height of the windows of the second and rusticating its facade, so that from the outside the building began to look not three-storey, but two-story. The new design of the church hall - in the spirit of the Victorian era - is unusual for Christian churches. Pilasters and columns were painted with stylized flowers, leaves and fruits: lilies, laurel, pomegranate, apple, rose hips, olive, oak. The pilasters closest to the altar were decorated with grapevines, and the columns with ears of wheat. In the same period, the temple was donated two stained glass windows from the 1880s with images of the patrons of England - St. George and St. Elizabeth. For their installation, window openings were pierced in the south wall of the nave. Together with them, 13 more stained-glass windows decorated the windows of the northern and southern walls. They were made by Heaton, Butler and Bayne, for which stained glass artist Robert Bane was commissioned for the church. Probably, it is he who is the author of these monumental compositions. This is the only example of English stained glass art of the late 19th century in Russia. In 1877, by order of the English colony, an organ was built by the British firm "Brindley and Foster". The firm was founded in Sheffield in 1854 due to the increased demand for organ building for the large number of churches under construction. According to literary sources, it is known that 4 organs were made for Russia, but the only one in the Anglican Church in St. Petersburg has survived. The organ's game console bears an inscription with the names of donors John Jellybrand Hubbard and William Egetron Hubbard. The body of the organ is made of oak, in accordance with the traditions of English organ building; pipes decorated with painting (oil, gilding) are installed in the avenue. The game console is designed as a cabinet at the bottom of the avenue; the upper part of the console is closed by two sliding wooden glazed doors. White keys are covered with bone, black ones are made of wood. In the 1970s. the instrument was badly damaged: about 40 percent of the pipes were lost, abstracts of the mechanical tract were broken, air channels were broken. Finally, at the end of the 19th century, the temple was decorated with mosaic panels made in Roman technique. They were created in 1894-1896. in the workshop of academician P. P. Chistyakov at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts at the expense of parishioners. The church was supported by support from the London Russian Campaign and donations from parishioners and was under the auspices of the British Embassy. In 1914 the building was renovated. In 1919 the temple was closed. In the 1920s-1930s. the building with all its property (including the extensive library of the community of the Anglican Church) was under the jurisdiction of the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs of the USSR in Leningrad. In 1939 the building was transferred to the Presidium of the Leningrad City Council. In 1941, the wooden fence of the pulpit, fastenings in the floor of wooden benches for parishioners, and a bronze chandelier from the staircase were dismantled from the church hall. During the Great Patriotic War, 4 artillery shells hit the building. In the middle of the twentieth century. A complex of works was carried out: renovation of the facade along the Promenade des Anglais, renovation of coach sheds in the courtyard, restoration of stained-glass windows, chandeliers, picturesque plafond, paintings, oak doors, the main staircase in the main building, central heating was carried out. The inlaid parquet floors were covered with new parquet floors. 1970-1999 the City Tour Bureau was located here, and the church hall of the temple was used as an assembly hall. In the late 1970s, the crumbling statues were dismantled from the pediment. Even earlier (in the 1930s-1960s), statues of sphinxes disappeared from the pedestals at the front facade of the church. Since the early 1990s. the administration of the City Tour Bureau, having moved to the courtyard wing, began to rent out the church hall and the adjacent premises on the second floor. One of the tenants has set up a closed "trade point" here for foreign tourist groups. Tall glass display cases with jewelry and souvenirs were installed in the church. Tour guides brought here groups of foreigners from cruise ships. There is a cafeteria in the room adjacent to the prayer hall. Unauthorized work was carried out to open the floors between the first and second floors of the right courtyard wing. In the 1990s, under the KGIOP program, seven stained-glass windows were restored in the Church Hall ... Since 2001, the building has been under the operational management of the St. Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory. In connection with the violation of the terms of the security obligation, KGIOP filed statements of claim for the recovery of a fine and forcing the user to perform the prescribed work to preserve the object, but the claim was rejected. In 2016, the federal cultural heritage site "Church of the Anglican Jesus Christ" at 56 Anglican Embankment was transferred to the operational management of the St. Petersburg State Theater "Music Hall" in order to create a new open cultural space - the Concert Hall on the English Embankment. It is planned that the symphony orchestra of the Theater "Music-Hall" "Northern Symphony" under the direction of maestro Fabio Mastrangelo, the Chamber Choir under the direction of the Honored Artist of Russia V.S.Kopylova-Panchenko, as well as other musical groups of the city and the country ... His Royal Highness Prince Michael of Kent, during a visit to the Church of England on 26 March 2017, privately expressed support for the decision to hand over the building to the theater to create a concert hall. As it was noted, during a meeting with representatives of the Anglican faith in St. Petersburg, organized by the British Consul General in St. Petersburg Keith Allan, the management of the Music Hall theater expressed their readiness to hold festive services in the hall. "This will be a gift to the small Anglican community in St. Petersburg - the opportunity to hold services in a building restored at the expense of the city," said Sergei Makarov (chairman of the KGIOP). (KGIOP website kgiop.gov.spb.ru