The Kreuzkirche belonged to the Evangelical Free Church congregation. It is a polygonal building with a portal facing Schillerstrasse (now Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya Street); it had a pyramidal roof on which a turret stood. The congregation numbered 600 people.
The fighting of the Second World War did not touch this church.
For a long time it was used as a storehouse. In 1988 it was decided to hand it over to the Orthodox Church. It was consecrated in 1990. It was partly rebuilt. Today the former church building houses the Orthodox Church of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos.
Photos: Bildarchiv Ostpreußen, bildarchiv-ostpreussen.de.
Translated from Russian with the help of AI (Claude, Anthropic), October 2026.
