Museum 'Church of Peter and Paul'

About museum

Church festivals and Orthodox services are still held in the Church of Peter and Paul. The Church of Peter and Paul was built in 1616 on the bank of the Tura River. It is one of the three stone churches of the Tyumen Trinity Monastery. In 1760-1770 it was connected to the bell tower by a two-story building that housed the spiritual administration and the sacristy. In 1924 the monastery was closed, but after restoration in 1987 a museum was opened next to the church, where works by Tyumen craftsmen of the 17th-20th centuries, manuscript and printed books by the early printers Ivan Fedorov and Francysk Skaryna, a collection of gold embroidery from the 17th-19th centuries, and icons by Siberian icon painters are exhibited. At present, church festivals and Orthodox services continue to be held in the Church of Peter and Paul.