St Paul's Lutheran Church, Odesa
The Lutheran church of Odesa's German community, of 1827/1897, which burned in 1976 and was restored by 2010.
The first Lutheran pastor appeared in Odesa in 1804; the stone church to a design by Francesco Boffo was begun in 1825 and consecrated on 9 October 1827. In 1895–1897 the architect Hermann Scheurembrandt rebuilt the church in neo-Romanesque forms, and it was reconsecrated on 1 November 1897. The last pastor, Karl Vogel, was shot in 1937, and on the night of 9–10 May 1976 the building burned out. It was returned to the community on 23 October 1997. Reconstruction began on 4 October 2005, and the restored church was consecrated on 17 April 2010; the organ by the Steinmeyer firm has 27 stops.
68 Novoselskoho Street, city centre. Community office Tue–Fri 12:30–17:00 (stpaul.od.ua); organ concerts as announced, tel. 063 507 2964 (culturemeter, 12.2025). Odesa is under air alerts — know where the shelter is.