Levashov Cemetery is one of the largest cemeteries in St. Petersburg - about 45 thousand victims of Stalin's repressions of 1937-1953 are buried here. The idea of this project is to preserve the spirit of the place as much as possible. The site for future construction is a forest area - pine trees “remembering” those terrible years of repression. Therefore, according to the project, it is supposed to use all the cut trees for the construction of the temple. Thus, only local material is used. Pine trees are sawn in the amount necessary for construction. Thus, a clearing is obtained, which stretches towards the east. At the end of the clearing it is supposed to install a worship cross. The trees falling into the building area of the temple are not completely sawn - their chopped-off trunks symbolize the end of earthly life, and the beginning of heavenly life. In the basement there is a museum in memory of the victims of political repression (in it visitors see only a whole part of the sawn pine trunks - earthly life). On the upper level there is a temple. In the church, parishioners see sawn pine trunks on which the icons of the New Martyrs - Heavenly Peace - lie. The interior of the temple is illuminated through the upper windows located between the walls of the quadrangle and the “heaven".
