Покровская церковь в Асунсьоне

A church of the South American Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia in the historic centre of Asunción. The decision to establish a church was taken by a general meeting of the Russian colony in 1926, and the first rector arrived on 5 September 1927. The building was erected by Russian émigrés to drawings by military engineer Georgy Shmagailov and consecrated on 26 October 1928 by Protopresbyter Konstantin Izraztsov.