The Konstantin-Elena Church is located on the Republic Avenue.
The church is one-table in plan, five-domed, designed in the form of a regular cross. The length of the building is 33 meters, width - 8 meters. Two outstanding extensions on the sides, which give the church a cross look, have dimensions of 3.6x4 meters. Strict and, at the same time, graceful lines of the contours of the Orthodox church are directed upwards, giving the building airy lightness and elegance.
Above the cubic volume stands an eight-faceted drum with windows, covered with a shallow tent, completed by the command post. Above the vestibule, a bell tower with a rectangular base, an 8-drum drum and, in the upper part, belfry spans, overlapping also with a gentle tent with the same head as the central tent, rises. The bell tower is located above the western entrance to the building.
Now it is plastered and gives the impression of stone.
The monument is of value, as the only cult building in the city that has survived since the 19th century, and reflects the development of the city's culture at a certain stage in the history of urban development.
The history of the monument begins on September 12, 1849, when the priest of the field camp of Akmola church, Mikhail Nikolsky, asked the border guard to start construction of the church from the early spring of 1850. The project and estimates for the construction of the wooden church were developed by June 1850.
July 8, 1856, the Cathedral Archpriest John Toropov consecrated the church in the name of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles kings Constantine and Helena. The first priest of the church was the priest Michael Nikolsky. The final work on the exterior decoration of the temple ended in the summer of 1858.
By a decree of April 27, 1893, the Tobolsk Spiritual Consistory authorized, at the request of the Akmola Cossacks, the transfer of the Constantine-Elenin Church to Akmola page to the square. The laying on the page square was carried out on May 14, 1900. The transfer process was completed by the beginning of 1902.
As before, the temple was arranged in a one-table plan, in the form of a regular cross, but significant changes also appeared: the church became five-domed. This corresponded to the official direction of architecture of those years.
In 1938, the Konstantin-Yelenin Church was closed. Crosses and bells were removed, the bell tower was dismantled. In 1940 the building was transferred to the Museum of Local History and History. During the Great Patriotic War in 1941-1942, the building of the church housed a separate battalion of communications of the 29th Infantry Division, which was being formed in Akmolinsk. In 1942, according to numerous requests of the faithful, Akmolinsk was allowed to resume worship in the Constantine-Elenin Church.
From this time until today, worship services are held in one of the oldest buildings of the iconic architecture.
