Church of St. Prokop (Hamburg)

Prokop Church in Hamburg

The Church of St. Prokop is a Russian Orthodox Church abroad in Hamburg-Stellingen ( Eimsbüttel district ). It is consecrated to Saint Prokop , a merchant born in Lübeck who, after converting to the Russian Orthodox faith, renounced completely by distributing his property to the poor.

history

On January 2, 1902, a chapel in a residential building in Harvestehude was consecrated to Nikolaus von Myra and served as a prayer room for the Russian Orthodox businessmen based in Hamburg . This chapel was used until around 1990, most recently only on the holidays of Nicholas of Myra on May 9th and December 6th.

After the Second World War , there were many refugees of Russian Orthodox faith in Hamburg and the British military administration provided the community with a plot of land with a house and barracks on nearby Harvestehuder Weg. The administration of the Russian community of the British zone was accommodated in the house, while the barrack became Hamburg's first Prokop Church. In 1953 Archbishop Filofej moved to Hamburg. As the seat of the bishop, St. Prokop became a cathedral church .

When the property on Mittelweg was needed for the construction of a school, the community received building land in Hamburg-Stellingen to compensate. The new Prokop Church was built there from 1961 to 1965 by the architects Alexander S. Nürnberg and AN Serow in the traditional Russian style. The consecration took place in 1965. After extensive restoration work on domes and frescoes , the church has been a listed building since 1994 .

Architecture and interior design

With their design, the architects have tied in with the Novgorod church style . The plan of the church is square with an apse on the east side. The interior is traditionally designed. The walls and ceilings are covered with frescoes by the painter Baron Nikolaj Bogdanovič von Meyendorff.

In 1996 the church received nine new bells . These were specially made for the church in the Yaroslavl Oblast in Russia and replaced the temporary ringing of four donated bells.

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  Front view

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  Back with bell tower

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  Plaque on the church

Web links

Commons : St. Prokop Church (Hamburg-Stellingen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage of the community
• Chamber choir of the Russian Orthodox Church of St. Prokop Hamburg
• History of the orthodox community in Hamburg on orthodoxie-in-deutschland.de

literature

• Matthias Gretzschel : Churches in Hamburg. History, architecture, offers. Hamburger Abendblatt, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-921305-92-6 , p. 76.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.orthodoxie-in-deutschland.de/03_textsammlung/bote_roka/kirchen_hamburg.html
2. ^ Gretzschel: Churches in Hamburg. 2000, p. 76.

Coordinates: 53 ° 35 ′ 3.1 ″  N , 9 ° 56 ′ 48.9 ″  E