Cultural centre Mekan (Ashgabat)

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Russian: Till 1948. Since 1975 with the public the Ministry of culture and tele-radio broadcasting of Turkmenistan the Ministry of culture and tele-radio broadcasting of Turkmenistan 744000, Ashkhabad, street 1984 (Pushkins), д. 14. Bodies - 354105 / 353560 / 354360 факс:353500 МИНИСТЕРСВО CULTURES of Turkmenistan... Ashkhabad, PUSHKIN'S STREET, 14, Ph.: 354105, 353560Филиальный the church (chapel) of the Tashkent arrival to Preobrazhenija Gospodnja name has been based in an administrative centre of Zakaspijsky area in 1903 by priest Justinasom Pranajtisom with assistance of spouses of Budkevich, offered the site the area in 200 сажен in centre Ashabada, in a quarter between streets Ovrazhnoj and Levashovsky. In the beginning of 1904 J.B.Pranajtis has addressed in Mogilyov Catholic архиепархию with the request to bless him on construction in Tashkent and Ashabade "houses of worship with altars, bodies, bells and all other accessories". (In a picture - the Ashabadsky church) Then the Ministry of Defence has directed to Department of common causes of foreign confessions the request of Catholics for the building licence prayful дома3, and after observance of all formalities the civil work proceeding five years have begun. In September, 1909 Pranajtis has reported on the managing director Mogilyov архиепархией that on the means collected вскладчину, it finishes erection of three stone churches, in Ashabade, Kyzyl-Arvate and Margelane4. The Ashabadsky church constructed half from жженного and сырцового of a brick, "represented a Neogothic structure... On a spacious altar the image Preobrazhenija Gospodnja, presented to priest Pranajtisu spiritual Academy towered. In lateral side-altars of an altar images Presvjatoj of Maiden Maria - gift of arrival of St. Stanislav in St.-Petersburg - and the St. Ekspedita ordered курантом in Tashkent where bells" 5 have been cast also settled down. In the plan it was трехнефная a basil with acting forward external притвором over which the two-story belltower blocked by strongly extended octahedral tent dome and topped with a cross towered. Outwardly the building reminded samples of an English perpendicular gothic style, however character of the decor, many details, and all volume composition gave out the Polish and Russian roots of architecture of this church. Along with Lutheran кирхой (1907) And three orthodox cathedrals the church throughout twenty years remained one of several city dominants. The expressive silhouette of its tower towered over an one-storeyed city, and round a building there was the small park limited to a high openwork fence. On archival materials yet it was not possible to establish authorship of this original monument, whose image is embodied on the unique remained post photocard published in 1912 Its destiny it has appeared same tragical, as well as thousand other temples which have appeared in territory of the USSR. In 1921 Ashkhabad still remained a Turkestani city second after Tashkent,