Saint Nicholas Temple (Gulistan)

In 1890, in the village of Guliston in the Turkestan Governorate of the Russian Empire, a large brick church was erected. It could accommodate no fewer than a hundred parishioners, but it was demolished in the 1930s during the Soviet era. In 1945, a decision was made to build a new house of prayer in Guliston. The new house of prayer, constructed from adobe brick, was built in less than a year and opened its doors to parishioners on November 9, 1945.^[3]

In 1955, it was registered as a church and consecrated in memory of Saint Nicholas. Reconstruction began on June 10, 1955, with the permission of Bishop Hermogenes of Nikolsk. In 1957, a narthex was built, and the crosses were raised. Bishop Hermogenes consecrated the reconstruction of the House of Prayer, and the narthex was consecrated by Archpriest Fyodor Siminenko.^[4]