After the October 1831 forcesRussian army under the command of Count IF. Paskevich was suppressed by a mutiny that broke out on the territory of the Kingdom of Poland, Lithuania, Right-Bank Ukraine and partly Belarus, the Siberian population was replenished by exiles, an endless stream of arrivals from these areas. For many of them, Tobolsk became the place of residence for many years. The Church of the Holy Trinity, located on the street Rosa Luxemburg (formerly Epiphany), is a monument of those ancient events.
With difficulty getting used to new places for them,The exiled settlers, the overwhelming majority of whom were Catholics, established their own religious community. In 1843, its members appealed to the provincial authorities with a request to allow the construction of a house in which they could perform worship services in accordance with their confessional features.
After considering the issue and lengthyapprovals with the metropolitan authorities permission was obtained, and in 1848 the exiled Catholics had their own house of prayer. Since their numbers did not decrease, and in view of a number of political conflicts, even increased, in 1868 an independent parish was formed from them.
Soon a small wooden house built forservices, received the status of a parish church. His abbot was a Polish priest, ordained in Warsaw, but, like most of his parishioners, who was not on his own will to live in Tobolsk.
The Church of the Holy Trinity - so now called the housethe prayers of political exiles, in those years was a small wooden building, which differed from the homes of local inhabitants except perhaps by a cross on the roof. Over the years, he was decrepit and, besides, could not accommodate all the flocks that had grown over the years.
Необходимость постройки нового большого и по the possibility of a stone structure became more evident with each passing year, and finally, in 1891, the newly appointed rector father Vincent Przemycki concerned himself with obtaining permission to build a stone church.
Испокон века колёса чиновничьей машины крутились in Russia is extremely slow, and the petition of the Tobolsk priest for six years traveled from the cabinet to the office until finally, in 1897, a positive response was received.
Ещё три года потребовалось на сбор необходимых means. It can be safely said that the temple of the Holy Trinity (Tobolsk) was the brainchild of all the Catholics of the empire. From everywhere, even from the most deaf end of it, there were transfers to a remote Siberian city. Of course, the main contributors were representatives of capital. It is known, for example, that the widow of a large Ural industrialist and merchant Alfons Poklevsky transferred 3,000 rubles to the construction fund-huge money at that time.
The Church of the Holy Trinity (Tobolsk) was built infor seven years, and its solemn consecration took place in September 1907. To this end, Catholic Bishop Jan Tseplak arrived in the city. Already after the October coup, this minister of the Church of Christ was arrested by the Bolsheviks, and in 1923 a Moscow court sentenced to be shot for allegedly counter-revolutionary activity. Only thanks to the intervention of the international community, to whose voice the country's rulers still listened, the death sentence was replaced by ten years of camps.
In those same days, when the capital was a judicialprocess over the disgraced bishop, in Siberia the wave of anti-religious campaign was growing. The Church of the Holy Trinity (Tobolsk) - a monument of architecture of the early XX century was closed, the towers were demolished. The same building was originally used as a dining room, and then - the office of film distribution.
In the early 90s, the baton of democratictransformations in the country adopted and Tobolsk. The Church of the Holy Trinity was again returned to the believers, and, after a number of restoration and restoration works, the first mass was performed in it. In 2004, with funds donated to one of the German charitable organizations, an organ was installed in its premises. Since then, classical music concerts are regularly held there, which is rightfully famous for Tobolsk.
The Church of the Holy Trinity, restored andrestored, is a structure of red brick, built in the Neo-Gothic style. Above the central part of the facade stands a belfry, and its edges are framed by two side towers.
From the western part of the building there is a semicircularapside, inside which the altar is placed. The Catholic Church of the Blessed Trinity, whose description is supplemented by the photos placed in the article, perfectly fits into the surrounding landscape and successfully blends in with the nearby Tobolsk Kremlin.
