{"id":23650,"date":"2021-04-20T10:45:22","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T10:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sacredeasttravel.com\/?page_id=23650"},"modified":"2021-04-20T10:45:22","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T10:45:22","slug":"the-catholic-church-of-st-john-the-baptist-in-samarkand","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sacredeasttravel.com\/fr\/uzbekistan\/samarkand\/the-catholic-church-of-st-john-the-baptist-in-samarkand\/","title":{"rendered":"L\u2019\u00e9glise Saint-Jean-Baptiste \u00e0 Samarcande"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div  class=\"wpb_single_image wpb_content_element vc_align_left\">\n\t\t\n\t\t<figure class=\"wpb_wrapper vc_figure\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"vc_single_image-wrapper   vc_box_border_grey\"><img width=\"900\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/sacredeasttravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Church_Saint_John_Baptist_in_Samarkand_19-55.jpg\" class=\"vc_single_image-img attachment-full\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sacredeasttravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Church_Saint_John_Baptist_in_Samarkand_19-55.jpg 900w, https:\/\/sacredeasttravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Church_Saint_John_Baptist_in_Samarkand_19-55-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sacredeasttravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Church_Saint_John_Baptist_in_Samarkand_19-55-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sacredeasttravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Church_Saint_John_Baptist_in_Samarkand_19-55-16x12.jpg 16w, https:\/\/sacredeasttravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Church_Saint_John_Baptist_in_Samarkand_19-55-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/div>\n\t\t<\/figure>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<h2><strong>L\u2019\u00e9glise Saint-Jean-Baptiste \u00e0 Samarcande<\/strong><\/h2>\n<hr class=\"divider active horizontal-break small\" \/>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p>L'\u00e9glise Saint-Jean-Baptiste est la seule \u00e9glise catholique de la ville de Samarcande en Ouzb\u00e9kistan, pays \u00e0 95% musulman. Elle d\u00e9pend de l'administration apostolique d'Ouzb\u00e9kistan dont le si\u00e8ge est \u00e0 Tachkent.<\/p>\n<p>Il existait du temps de l'Empire russe \u00e0 la fin du xixe si\u00e8cle une petite minorit\u00e9 catholique \u00e0 Samarcande constitu\u00e9e de commer\u00e7ants et de fonctionnaires d'origine polonaise ou allemande. Ils demandent l'autorisation de construire une \u00e9glise en 1905, mais elle leur est refus\u00e9e1. En 1915, vinrent s'ajouter un certain nombre de prisonniers de guerre polonais (originaires de la Pologne prussienne et de la Pologne autrichienne), autrichiens et hongrois, si bien qu'il est permis \u00e0 la communaut\u00e9 catholique de construire une \u00e9glise. Elle ach\u00e8te un terrain donnant dans l'actuelle rue Makhmoud Kochgari. L'\u00e9glise - de style n\u00e9ogothique, construite par l'architecte Nelle - est pr\u00eate en 1916. Elle est ferm\u00e9e par les autorit\u00e9s de la r\u00e9publique socialiste sovi\u00e9tique d'Ouzb\u00e9kistan vers 1930 ; on y installe une salle de sport.\nC'est en 1995 \u00e0 l'initiative de l'abb\u00e9 Ivan Rolloff que la communaut\u00e9 catholique subsistante de la ville obtient l'autorisation de s'enregistrer officiellement et de r\u00e9cup\u00e9rer l'\u00e9difice en 1997. Apr\u00e8s des travaux de restauration, l'\u00e9glise est consacr\u00e9e le 27 mars 1999.<br><br>\nAujourd'hui, la communaut\u00e9 est anim\u00e9e par un pr\u00eatre franciscain conventuel polonais, le P. Lucian Szymanski, assist\u00e9 de deux fr\u00e8res franciscains conventuels polonais.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Catholic Church of St. John the Baptist in Samarkand The Catholic Church of St. John the Baptist in Samarkand was built in 1915 at...","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":23200,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sacredeasttravel.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sacredeasttravel.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sacredeasttravel.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sacredeasttravel.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sacredeasttravel.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sacredeasttravel.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23652,"href":"https:\/\/sacredeasttravel.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23650\/revisions\/23652"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sacredeasttravel.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sacredeasttravel.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}