To the question about construction and location of catholic temple in the “greek township” of st.-Petersburg

Abstract

For the first time this article in details considers the processes of Roman Catholics’ church construction in the “Greek township” of St.-Petersburg. Namely the author discovers many circumstances of the first wooden Catholic temple’s creation in 1710 (the Church of St. Peter), rates its stone realignment completed in 1726 with a new consecration in honor of St. Catherine of Alexandria, and also the successive reconstructions of the church buildings down to a grand fire in 1737, which destroyed  this temple. On the basis of many archival documents and cartographical sources we can trace the actual parameters of cult buildings and define their location. It’s evidently that the church territory of Petersburg Catholics was located on a place of present houses № 3 in the Aptekarsky lane and № 6 in the Millionnaya Street and also on a site between them, which now is vacant. The Catholic Church was located partly on a place of east flank of the house № 6 in Millionnaya Street and partly in territory behind the house № 3 in Aptekarsky lane.