Revived to life temple of the Life-Giving Trinity in Old Cheryomushki

In 2005, the restoration of the temple was completedThe Life-Giving Trinity in Old Cheryomushki, which was there in previous years, but was the victim of one of the anti-religious campaigns so often conducted during the Soviet period. About the history of this trampled and reborn shrine we will tell in this article.

Dowry of a young bride

1720 turned out to be happy for the hereditaryMoscow noblewoman Anna Mikhaylovna Pronchishcheva - the Lord sent her husband, and not some, but a man of solid, state counselor. As a dowry, her parents abandoned the wasteland located where the houses of the Academic District of the capital are now located, and bought by her great-grandfather Nikolai Alekseyevich in the old days.

That's where the young settled, having builthomestead Troitskoe-Cheryomushki. Why Troitskoe? In honor of the stone church of the same name, erected on its territory next to a spacious manor house. It stood right on the spot where today a new temple of the Life-Giving Trinity was built in the Old Cheryomushki.

The subsequent fate of the temple and manor

Subsequently, the manor passed many times from the handsin the hands, but since most of the time it was owned by the family of the Moscow rich man N. P. Andreev, who bought it in 1810, it became known as Troitskoe-Andreevo.

This first temple of the Life-Giving Trinity in the OldCheryomushki stood until 1879, but, having come to the extreme dilapidation, was completely rebuilt by the priest Father John (Zabavin). Necessary funds for the work was donated by one of the pious parishioners of the church - SN Tikhonov. The previous building was completely dismantled, and a new one was erected in its place, to which a bell tower was built, made in neoclassical style.

Desecration of the shrine

During the persecution of the church, which followedafter the Bolsheviks came to power, the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Old Cheryomushki fully shared the fate of most Russian shrines. Until 1935, his community still somehow resisted attacks from the organizers of numerous anti-religious campaigns, but the forces were too unequal. For a long time to go against the ruling state policy that prevailed in those years, a group of believers could not, and as a result, the temple was taken from them.

The building, built once for donationsthe pious merchant Tikhonov, was distinguished by excellent durability, and the new masters of life, having thrown crosses, domes and other ideals alien to their ideology, placed an artel on the production of a sports equipment in a defiled church.

The death of the temple

In 1963, the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in the OldCheryomushki was finally destroyed, as it was on a site that entered the city limits, and its construction was carried out in accordance with the master plan, approved in the highest authorities. On the basis of this document, where the God's temple stood before, they built a swimming pool, but very soon, according to the Muscovites themselves, it turned into a garbage dump.

Period of spiritual revival of the country

The opportunity to return to life the trampled shrineappeared in the inhabitants of the district only with the onset of perestroika. In 1997, an initiative group was set up, seeking personal support from the patriarch. His Holiness not only supported their undertaking, but also provided practical assistance, blessing the creation of the parish community. Soon after, a meeting took place, during which the composition of the parish council was approved and its chairman was elected.

The last decade of the last centurya truly blessed period. The new democratic government radically changed its attitude towards religion, which made a lot of efforts to restore previously destroyed shrines.

The shrine, reborn from nonexistence

As early as March 1999, a space wasfuture construction. The beginning of the work was preceded by a long period of registration of permits and the creation of an architectural project, which was approved in the spring of 2001. It was based on genuine archival materials, so the current temple of the Life-Giving Trinity in Old Cheryomushki, the photo of which is given in the article, is as close to its appearance as it was once destroyed by the decree of the God-seeking authorities.

In the reconstruction work involved hundredspeople - both professionals and their volunteers. Their work was crowned with a worthy award - in 2005 on the map of Orthodox Moscow to its former shrines one more was added - the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Old Cheryomushki, address: st. Shvernik, 17, Kor. 1, p. 1.

Over the past decade, the temple has firmly occupied oneof the leading places among the spiritual centers of the capital. The organization of his religious life is led by Archpriest Father Nikolay (Karasyov), appointed back in 1999, one of those people whose works the Life-giving Trinity Church in Old Cheryomushki revived from its non-existence.

The schedule of the divine services held in it: on weekdays they start at 8:00 and continue at 17:00. On Sundays and holidays, the early luncheon starts at 7:00, late at 10:00, and evening services at 5:00.