Chapel of Blessed Xenia of Petersburg

Chapel of Blessed Xenia of Petersburg
It was simply impossible to lose the blessed grave. A chapel was built over the grave in 1830. They rebuilt and consecrated the chapel only 70 years later in 1902.
The chapel of Blessed Xenia was built in the pseudo-Russian style, icons were hung on the walls, and an iconostasis at the head of the tomb. After the October Revolution, during the persecution of Orthodoxy, 20 priests of the Smolensk Cathedral had to rent a chapel from the Vasileostrovsky Soviet of Workers' Deputies, signing a corresponding agreement.
Subsequently, some of the names of the clergy who participated in the signing of this document can be found in the execution lists of Svirlag. When the chapel of Xenia was closed in 1940, a stream of people flocked to it, asking for help.
During the war, marble gravestones were demolished, the icons were destroyed, and a fuel and lubricants warehouse was set up in the chapel. With the opening of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra in 1947, it was allowed to restore the blessed chapel. Memorial services began to be performed in the restored building. In 1962, history repeated itself with the only difference that now a sculptural workshop was equipped in the chapel.
And only in 1983 the chapel was transferred to the Orthodox Church. Restoration work of the interior went on until it was consecrated in 1987.
In 1988, Blessed Xenia was canonized. The feast Day of St. Xenia of Petersburg is June 6.