Church of the Nativity of the Virgin (Mariupol)

Church of the Nativity of the Virgin
Church of the Nativity of the Virgin, Mariupol
Church of the Nativity of the Virgin
Church of the Nativity of the Virgin
47°06′34″N 37°33′43.8″E / 47.10944°N 37.562167°E / 47.10944; 37.562167
Location	Mariupol
Country	Ukraine
History
Status	Church
Founded	1780 (1780)
Dedication	Nativity of Mary
Architecture
Functional status	destroyed (1936)
Completed	1780
Specifications
Materials	Brick

The Church of the Nativity of Mary was an 18th century church located in the city of Mariupol in Ukraine.

Between 1770 and 1780, a stone building was built in its place, and consecrated in 1780. The painter Arkhip Kuindzhi was baptized in the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin and married there in 1875 with Vera Leontyevna Kechedzhi-Shapovalova, the daughter of a wealthy merchant from Mariupol.

In Soviet times, the church was destroyed in 1936 by the Bolshevik government as part of the Atheist Five-Year Plan.^[1][2][3][4] The baptismal font of the destroyed church can be found today in the Kuindzhi Art Museum.