Ascension temple – Orthodox church in Tula. Story The parish was formed in the 17th century, and the first mention of the Church of the Ascension in the book of Tula Posad (1646) dates back to the same time. In 1712, a stone church was built at the expense of the merchant Andrei Fedorov Vladimirov. But there was no chapel for the morning liturgy, and the parishioners turned to the bishop with a request to build a chapel. Soon, permission…