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Saint Nicholas Old Orthodox Church Cemetery

Millville, Cumberland County, New Jersey, USA

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St. Nicholas Old Orthodox Church
Old Believers Russian Orthodox
Millville, New JerseyUSA

The church on Newcombtown Road was built in 1937. In 1973 Alexander Solzhenitsyn visited, speaking in Russian to 50-70 members. Noted 20th century iconographer Pimen M. Sofronov (1896-1973) belonged to the church in his later years and is buried in the church cemetery.

The Old Believers church in Millville has no signs, no website, no indication of what it is (a lifelong member of "our" St Nick's called it mysterious and said he little about it of it). From a few internet references, they appear to be the priestless kind of Old Believers. But it has its own distinctions: apparently one of the greatest iconographers of the twentieth century lived and worshipped there, and when famed Russian political prisoner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn visited the U.S. he made a point of speaking at this signless church on a dead end road.

https://samstar.ucoz.ru/publ/41-1-0-174
https://www.quakerranter.org/russian-old-believers-in-millville-nj/
https://oldbelievers.wordpress.com/2012/04/24/russian-old-believers-in-millville-nj-part-2/
St. Nicholas Old Orthodox Church
Old Believers Russian Orthodox
Millville, New JerseyUSA

The church on Newcombtown Road was built in 1937. In 1973 Alexander Solzhenitsyn visited, speaking in Russian to 50-70 members. Noted 20th century iconographer Pimen M. Sofronov (1896-1973) belonged to the church in his later years and is buried in the church cemetery.

The Old Believers church in Millville has no signs, no website, no indication of what it is (a lifelong member of "our" St Nick's called it mysterious and said he little about it of it). From a few internet references, they appear to be the priestless kind of Old Believers. But it has its own distinctions: apparently one of the greatest iconographers of the twentieth century lived and worshipped there, and when famed Russian political prisoner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn visited the U.S. he made a point of speaking at this signless church on a dead end road.

https://samstar.ucoz.ru/publ/41-1-0-174
https://www.quakerranter.org/russian-old-believers-in-millville-nj/
https://oldbelievers.wordpress.com/2012/04/24/russian-old-believers-in-millville-nj-part-2/

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