Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The church was expanded and renovated from September 23, 1923, when a ceremony was held to celebrate the laying of the cornerstone, to its completion on November 25, 1932, after nine years. The present-day St. Sophia Church was hailed as a monumental work of art and the largest Orthodox church in the Far East .
Russian Orthodox Saint Sofia Church built in 1907, Harbin. In 1924, an agreement was signed in Beijing regarding the control of the Chinese Eastern Railway. The agreement stated that only Soviet and Chinese citizens could be employed by the CER. This meant the Harbin Russians had to choose not only their nationality, but also their political ...
The Diocese of Harbin and Manchuria (Chinese: 哈尔滨教区, Russian: Харбинская и Маньчжурская епархия) is a canonical, structural and territorial-administrative subdivision of the Chinese Orthodox Church. From 1922 to 1945 it was under the jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad.
Since 1903, it was changed to "railway church" (CER), and by the decree of the Holy Synod of February 29, 1908 was transformed into a cathedral. In 1922, with the establishment of the independent Harbin-Manchurian Diocese in Harbin, the church received the status of a cathedral, and the post of rector was transformed into the post of clergyman.
At this time all Eastern Orthodox Christians in North America were united under the omophorion (Church authority and protection) of the Patriarch of Moscow, through the Russian Church's North American diocese. The unity was not merely theoretical, but was a reality, since there was then no other diocese on the continent.
By 1913, Harbin had become an established Russian colony for the construction and maintenance work on the China Eastern Railway. A record shows Harbin had a total of 68,549 people, most of Russian and Chinese descent. There were a total of 53 different nationalities. [3] Most of the Harbin population were of Russian and/or European descent.
Harbin has Heilongjiang Provincial Protestant Bible School. [5] Churches of Christianity in Harbin include Harbin Nangang Christian Church, Church of the Intercession in Harbin, Sacred Heart Cathedral of Harbin. Heilongjiang used to have more than 100,000 orthodox. [6] Saint Sophia Cathedral in Harbin is a former Russian Orthodox Church.
From the 1890s to the 1930s Harbin attracted Russian immigrants, including railway workers and later white émigrés fleeing the Revolution and Civil War and the rise of Stalin. [2] Harbin Russians included Russian Orthodox, Polish Latin Catholic, and Jewish congregations. [2] In 1926 Ivan Koronin's parish converted from Orthodox to Catholic. [3]