Chesme Church

The Chesme Church, is a small Russian Orthodox church at 12 Lensoveta Street, in , Russia. It was built by the Russian court architect Yury Felten in 1780, at the direction of Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia.
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  • Type: Church
  • Denomination: Russian Orthodox
  • Description: church in Saint Petersburg, Russia
  • Also known as: “Chesmenskaya Church”, “Church of Saint John the Baptist at Chesme Palace”, “Church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste du Palais de Chesme”, “Church of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist”, and “St. Petersburg Chesme Church”
  • Address: улица Ленсовета 12, 196135
  • Wheelchair access: no

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Pillbox No77, Gastello Street and Chesmen Cemetery.

Photo: Екатерина Борисова, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cemetery
Photo: Januarius-zick, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is situated 110 metres east of Chesme Church.

Photo: Екатерина Борисова, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is situated 200 metres west of Chesme Church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include South Saint Petersburg and Predportovaya.

Photo: Ирина Смирнова, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Southern suburbs of St. Petersburg are the area south of the Obvodny Canal. Although unknown to most visitors, the area boasts gorgeous industrial architecture and magnificent Stalinist buildings, together with later highrises or Soviet-era panel apartment blocks.

Suburb
Photo: Ssr, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a suburb, which is situated 2½ km southwest of Chesme Church.

Suburb
Photo: Mossir, Public domain.
Kupchino is an informal name for the part of of the federal city of , . is situated 3½ km east of Chesme Church.

Chesme Church

Latitude
59.85695° or 59° 51′ 25″ north
Longitude
30.3309° or 30° 19′ 51″ east
Inception
1777
Levels
2
Open location code
9GFGV84J+Q9
Open­Street­Map ID
way 870663628
Open­Street­Map feature
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Open­Street­Map attribute
denomination=­russian_orthodox
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­no
Wiki­data ID
Q1636756
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Chesme Church” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كنيسة شيسم”
  • Azerbaijani: “Çesme kilsəsi”
  • Belarusian: “Чэсменская царква”
  • Bulgarian: “Чесменска църква”
  • Chinese: “切斯馬教堂”
  • Chinese: “切斯马教堂”
  • Czech: “Česmenský chrám”
  • Czech: “Chrám Narození svatého Jana Křtitele”
  • Dutch: “Chesme-kerk”
  • Dutch: “Tsjesme-kerk”
  • Dutch: “Tsjesmekerk”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كنيسه شيسم”
  • Esperanto: “Cesmea preĝejo”
  • Finnish: “Cesmen kirkko”
  • Finnish: “Çeşmen kirkko”
  • Finnish: “Tšesmen kirkko”
  • Finnish: “Tshesmen kirkko”
  • French: “église de Tchesmé”
  • French: “Église de Tchesmé”
  • Georgian: “ჩეშმეს ეკლესია”
  • German: “Chesme Church”
  • German: “Kirche des heiligen Johannes des Täufers am Tschesmensker Palast”
  • German: “Tschesmensker Kirche”
  • Hebrew: “כנסיית צ’סמה”
  • Italian: “chiesa della Natività di San Giovanni Battista”
  • Italian: “chiesa di Cesme”
  • Italian: “Chiesa di Cesme”
  • Japanese: “チェスメ教会”
  • Macedonian: “Чесменска црква”
  • Persian: “کلیسای چسمه”
  • Polish: “Cerkiew Czesmeńska”
  • Portuguese: “Igreja Chesme”
  • Portuguese: “Igreja de Chesme”
  • Russian: “Церковь Рождества Иоанна Предтечи «Чесменская»”
  • Russian: “Церковь Рождества святого Иоанна Предтечи (Чесменская)”
  • Russian: “Чесменская церковь”
  • Slovak: “Česmenský chrám”
  • Slovak: “Česmenský kostol”
  • Slovenian: “Česmenska cerkev”
  • Spanish: “iglesia de Chesme”
  • Spanish: “Iglesia de Chesme”
  • Turkish: “Çeşme Kilisesi”
  • Veps: “Česmen jumalanpert‘”
  • Veps: “Česmen jumalanpert’”
  • Western Frisian: “Tsjesmetsjerke”

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