Chesme-Church-in-Saint-Petersburg

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Aşağıdaki Rus Ortodoks Kilisesinin ismi 'Çeşme Kilisesi'.

Gotik tarzdaki bu kilise San Petersburg'un en etkileyici kiliselerinden biri, diyor wiki. Adı 1770 yılında Osmanlı Donanması'nın Çeşme'de, Ruslar tarafından tamamen yok edilmesini anmak ve hatırlatmak için yapılmıştır.

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Chesme Church / Çeşme Kilisesi / San Petersburg

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English Wiki Wissen below:

The Chesme Church is a small Russian Orthodox church at 12 Lensoveta Street, in Saint Petersburg, Russia. 

The church was named "The Church of the Birth of St. John the Baptist" as it was consecrated on the birthday of John the Baptist. As it was built to honour the Battle of Chesme which the Russians won in 1770, The church is also popularly known as the "Chesme Church".^[6][8]

A memorial church,^[2] it was erected adjacent to the Chesme Palace (Russian: Чесменский дворец: damaged during the Siege of Leningrad and restored in 1946) between Saint Petersburgand Tsarskoye Selo to commemorate the anniversary of Russia's 1770 victory over Turkish forces in Chesme Bay(Turkish: Çeşme) in the Aegean Sea during the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774.