Traveling from the Intercession Church along Ordzhonikidze Street, you can visit the Resurrection Church in Voronezh. This ancient building holds many mysteries. In the article we answer the question about the history of the temple, provide a description of this religious structure.
Historical facts
The Resurrection Church in Voronezh was founded in 1752. Earlier on the site of the temple was located Kosmodemyanskaya church made of wood, bearing this name from the 12th century. Scribe books, which were written long before the reign of Peter the Great, also mention it.
The building of the Resurrection Church in Voronezh consists of two floors. The bottom is provided for heating. 1761 - the time when the consecration of the chapel dedicated to the Nativity of the saint, whose name is John the Baptist, took place. The lower church began to be used in 1765, choosing the Kazan Mother of God as an image.
Sunday of Christ is an event in honor of which the upper temple was opened. It took place in 1768.
The temple was adjacent to the parish cemetery, which eventually became abandoned. At the end of the 19th century, the iconostasis was updated. At this point, the temple was visited by five hundred parishioners, and in the possession of the church was 90 acres of arable land.
The 30s of the 20th century is the closing period of the Resurrection Church in Voronezh, as well as many other temples throughout the country. Here they began to store products that were produced by light industry.
In the Great Patriotic War, the period of occupation in Voronezh. Then the church bell tower was used as an observation post. Soviet power destroyed the temple. Only the first floor remained. The dome of the church was burned, the walls of brick were destroyed. The building has lost its appearance after irreparable destruction.
From the 50s to the 90s of the 20th century, the temple continued to play the role of a warehouse.
Temple revival
But the time has come for rebirth. Now the parishioners are actively visiting the church:
- children 6-12 years old come to Sunday school classes;
- adults are engaged in an icon painting workshop;
- they work here with children who are diagnosed with Down syndrome;
- Orthodox doctors hold their meetings here.
The temple took care of the hospitals and rehabilitation centers of Voronezh. In the church you can visit the service every day.
Every year, on August 20, an important procession of the procession takes place here, headed by the ruling bishop.
The temple building was created in the Baroque style. The height of the building is 43 meters, if you count the size of the cross. The bell tower rises above the ground by 30 meters. Around the church is a plot of land measuring 175 acres.
Diocese Information
The Voronezh diocese was founded on 11/27/1681 by isolating it from such dioceses as Ryazan and Belgorod. This part, which is patronized by the Voronezh Metropolitanate.
The Voronezh diocese became a unifying force, which connected the territories of parishes and monasteries in Voronezh and nearby cities. The ruling bishop of the diocese is Metropolitan Sergius, in the world called Fomin Vitaly Pavlovich.
Temple description
As mentioned above, the foundation date of the Resurrection Church in Voronezh is 1752. Having survived centuries of prosperity and years of devastation, today the church consists of 213 rooms, including churches and other prayer rooms: chapels and prayer rooms.
There are 291 clerics in the temple, of which 253 are priests and 38 deacons. Here is the organization of the Voronezh Orthodox Theological Seminary. There are also three types of print media. The parish publishes over twenty types of printed materials.
Tips for visitors
Address of the Resurrection Church in Voronezh: Ordzhonikidze Street, 19b. To attend the services, the time of their holding should be considered:
8:00 - liturgy.
10:30 - baptism.
16:00 - evening service.
The parishioners of the Cathedral with special awe relate to the icon of the Virgin, the image of which was dedicated to the second chapel of the temple. This is the Kazan Mother of God, which helps to overcome troubles and diseases, hardships and troubles of human life.
The day of veneration of this icon was the 21st day of July. After Russia was liberated from the Polish invasion, veneration of the icon is also held on the 4th day of November.
The Mother of God is addressed with these words:
Troparion, voice 4:
The zealous zealous, Mother of the Lord Vyshnyago, pray for all your Thy Son, Christ our God, and save all of you to save yourself in Your sovereign refugee. Protect all of us, O Madam Queen and Lady, and in adversity and sorrow and in ill health, burdened with sins by many, coming and praying to You with a touched soul and a broken heart before Your pure image with tears, and irretrievably hope of those who have for You, the deliverance of all evils , Useful to all, grant and save all, Virgin Virgin: Thou shalt provide the Divine cover for Thy servant.
Kondak, voice 8:
As a priest, people, to this quiet and good refuge, the quick Helper, the ready and warm salvation, the veil of the Virgin: we accelerate to prayer and stretch ourselves to repentance: exudes us with merciless mercy, the Most Holy Mother of God, precedes for help and relieves great misfortunes and evils of good nature and His God-fearing slaves.
Magnification:
We magnify Thee, the Blessed Virgin, God-chosen Otrokovice, and honor the image of Your saint, even sharpen the healing of all with faith flowing.
Prayer:
O Most Holy Lady of the Theotokos! With fear, faith and love that falls before your honest icon, we pray to You: do not turn Your face away from those who have come to You, plead with mercy Mother, Your Son and our God, the Lord Jesus Christ, that he preserve our country peacefully, and keep your Holy Church unshakable. from unbelief, heresies and schism. Not imams of other help, not imams of other hope, except you, the Blessed Virgin: You are the Almighty Christians Helper and Intercessor. Deliver all with faith to You who pray from the fall of sin, from the libel of evil people, from all temptations, sorrows, troubles, and unnecessary death: grant us the spirit of contrition, humility of heart, purity of thoughts, correction of sinful lives and forgiveness of sins, and all thanks be praised for glorifying greatness Yours, let us be merged with the Kingdom of Heaven, and with all the saints we will glorify the Sacred and Magnificent Name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Continuing the description of the Resurrection Church in Voronezh, we should talk about the cabinet - the museum, which was opened here in 2003. It is the first and only museum at the moment, if we talk about the entire metropolis of Voronezh. To visit this room you should go up to the second floor of the temple. Special furniture is installed here.
The idea of creating a cabinet-museum belongs to Archpriest Vasily Volodko. The collection of the museum's collection took two decades. Many of the exhibits were found during the restoration and restoration of the temple. Some exhibits were donated by the clergy of this diocese. Local parishioners also played a role in the replenishment of the museum.
The temple museum houses over a hundred exhibits. Here you can find objects that made up the sacristy. Since they are no longer used, they were put for review in the museum.
Thanks to the creation of a permanent exhibition, here you can study in detail the history of the temple. The museum is named after the abbot who served here before the revolution. His name was Mitrofan Devitsky.
In addition to copies of documents from the archive, here you can find many items by which you can judge the nature of the life of the parish in past times:
- metal crosses - crucifixes of the 19th century;
- vessels in which it was customary to store oil;
- pinhole cameras and paintings depicting Palestine;
- iconographic images of various kinds;
- elements of church utensils and robes of priests.
There is no charge for visiting this museum.
To summarize
The Resurrection Church in Voronezh was founded in 1752. Previously, the Cosmodemyanskaya Church was located on the site of the temple. Since that time, the building has survived the heyday and almost complete destruction, served as a warehouse.
At the end of the 20th century, it was restored and from that time reborn. Today it is an active temple in which there is a Sunday school for children and adults. Here they deal with sick children, there is a museum room.
Divine services in the Resurrection Church are held every day, both in the morning and in the evening.