House Church in the name of St. Nicholas, the Wonderworker of Myra in Lycia
The history of the founding of St. Nicholas Military parish is
connected
with the evacuation from Vladivostok to Shanghai of military schools
with
their house temples and clerics.
House Church on Jessfield Road
First settling on Jessfield Road, the corps also located its temples
there.
After the military schools moved to other streets, and then in 1924 to
Serbia, Sib kk left behind some church property for the formation of a
new
temple.
This property was transferred to the Union of Those Who Served in the
Russian Army and Fleet, which, in December 1924, opened a military
house
church on Linda Terrace, #13.
House Church at 876, Avenue Joffre
Thereafter, on January 1, 1927, the church, together with the Union's
office, moved to a house, a private residence at the corner of
Avenue Joffre
and Route Doumer, 876.
The entire ground floor was allocated for the church.
House Church at 929, Avenue Joffre
Later, when the house was torn down, the church in 1931 moved to
Avenue Joffre, house 929, near Route Gustare de Boissenzon.
Because of disagreements about where in the building to locate the
military
and Cossack organizations, the church began to be considered a
Representation of Harbin, and in 1932 there was a petition to the
Metropolitan Evlogy of the Western European Russian Orthodox Churches,
Exarch of the Ecumenical Patriarch, with whose blessing the church now
existed.
Archpriest Alexander Pinyaev was priest-in-charge and spiritual leader
of
church.
Lieutenant General Glebov was the church-warden.