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Vvedenskaya Church in Dudinka

On March 31, 2001 in Dudinka at the church square in front of incomplete temple the dedication of bells was conducted. Citizens who were standing down on the ground held their breathe and watched silently how 10 bells (the weight of the biggest one is 500 kg) were fixed one by one on the bell tower. Some people had tears of joy on their faces. Since then deep clear sounds of the bells have been floating above Dudinka and Yenisey, as they had 80 years ago, when the church was made of wood and the bell tower stood separately.

The roots of the Vvedenskaya Orthodox Church’s history go far in the 17^th century, when it became a center of orthodoxy expansion among non-Russian people. The first mention of the Church  says: “In was built in 1855 without a bell tower with a help of brothers Kipryan and Peter Sotnikov”.

Smoke-black ceilings and iconostasis, blackened silver dishes, dust on altar’s New Testaments are very far from modern splendor and clean temple, though the library, archives and inventory lists have always been kept in proper order.

Vvedenskaya Church in Dudinka was closed in 1925. Only in 1991 a question about reconstruction was put in discussion.

Address: Dudinka, 28 Sovetskaya street