At the Central Cemetery of Vienna, in the so-called "Russian" section, a square single-nave church was built with a cylindrical bell tower, an onion dome, a semicircular apse, and three-tiered kilovid kokoshniks. The Church of Saint Lazarus was consecrated in 1895.
Since 1867, Archpriest Raevsky, the rector of the Vienna Russian Embassy Church, collected donations for the construction of the Church of Lazarus the Four-Days Dead. He dreamed of a large stone cathedral, but after his death in 1884, only 22,000 rubles were raised, which was enough for a small cemetery church.
By the end of the last century, the small church had deteriorated significantly, and the authorities of Vienna closed it for restoration. The work carried out from 2004 to 2006 was led by V. Tsekhetner and P. Ebengoi. The renovated church was consecrated on October 12, 2006, and at the end of the ceremony, the architects were awarded patriarchal honors.
Now the small Russian church in the Vienna cemetery shines again with the gilding of the dome and the gold of the main altar. Services, liturgies, and memorial services are held in the Church of Saint Lazarus.
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