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Christ the Savior Russian Military Cemetery Church in Mukden

This memorial church of Christ the Savior was located in the Russian cemetery in Mukden, (now Shěnyáng), Fengtian province. It was dedicated to the Russian soldiers who died in the Battle of Mukden in 1904 and in other battles during the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-05. Construction started on September 8, 1911, finished in 1912 and consecrated in 1914.

In May 1946, George Lacks took photos for LIFE magazine of the rector Fr Jhuda Prihodko with Protodeacon Ignaty in front of the church, at the cemetery with the Chinese deacon, and at the Soviet memorial.

It is currently still standing.

Project Plan

drawings of Grand Duke Pyotr Nikolaevich Romanov
1911 plan of the temple-monument.
(Source: RGIA. F. 485. Op. 4. D. 29. L. 1, 3, 6)
Published for the first time.

project plan from "Niva" Vol. XLV,
№ 10, March 3, 1914, Pg. 193

Photos

beginning construction
Photo from postcards.com.cn

construction ~1 meter high
Photo from postcards.com.cn

construction halfway
Photo from postcards.com.cn

First East Siberian infantry regiment survivors
after decisive battle with Fengtian
Photo from postcards.com.cn

group photo of Russo-Japanese War soldiers
when church building construction completed,
provided by the Irkutsk history museum

photo taken during
construction, closer
to the end (1912)

1912 photo from "Forgotten Graves" Harbin:
Publishing house of M.V. Zaitsev, 1938. Pg. 53.

1912, from ostashkov.ru

photos from "New Time" Illustrated appendix.
June 7 (20) 1914, № 13733 pg. 7

1915

postcards and photo from forum.vgd.ru

postcard from Japan

September 6, 1923 postcard
from rusalbom.ru

postcard from Dalian

1930s postcard from Japan

photos from "Forgotten Graves" Harbin: Publishing house of M.V. Zaitsev, 1938. Pp. 63, 65, 67, 69, 71, 97.

1940s postcard

1940s postcard from Japan

Rector of the Church of the Savior
in Mukden Archpriest Jhuda Mikhailovich
Prihodko and Protodeacon Ignaty
Shuang (later Bishop Vasily) 1942 Photo
from Museum of Church Archaeology, MDPA
Kitajskij Blagovestnik,
Aug-Sept 1947 , pg. 42

1942 Photo from Museum of
Church Archaeology, MDPA

After the hierarchal service
in the memorial church in Mukden.
1942 Photo from Museum of
Church Archaeology, MDPA