The House near Warsaw Railway Station

Next to the former Warsaw (Varshavsky) Railway Station is a quiet patriarchal quarter of the city: the Church of the Resurrection and several old buildings that were once used for church workshops, schools, charity and other similar purposes.

This is one of the few wooden houses that have survived in the center of St. Petersburg. This building was built in the late 19th century and was recognized as an identified architectural monument.

I am very concerned about the fate of this building. The house was used as an ordinary city apartment building until 2014. The city authorities resettled the residents in new houses and transferred the building to the diocese, but the clergy were very bad owners. Two years ago there was a fire, the building was mothballed, but they did not even try to start repairing it.

In the background you can see the Church of the Resurrection, and the red brick building a little closer to us is the home of the sobriety society. In the late XIX - early XX century at the temple worked Society of Moral Education of workers and employees, which set its first priority fight for sobriety. This building was constructed especially for the Society of Moral Education. It had a parochial school with handicraft classes, a library, a reading room, as well as apartments for employees at church and school.