Traveling from the Intercession Church along Ordzhonikidze Street, you can visit the Church of the Resurrection in Voronezh. This ancient building holds many mysteries. In the article we will answer the question about the history of the temple, we will provide a description of this religious building.
Historical facts
The Resurrection Church in Voronezh was founded in 1752. Earlier, on the site of the temple, there was the Kosmodemyanskaya church made of wood, which had this name since the 12th century. She is also mentioned in the Scribal Books, which were written long before the reign of Peter the Great.
The building of the Resurrection Church in Voronezh consists of two floors. Heating is provided in the lower part. 1761 - the time when the chapel dedicated to the Nativity of the saint, whose name was John the Baptist, was consecrated. The lower church began to be used in 1765, choosing the Kazan Mother of God as an image.
The Sunday of Christ is the event in honor of which the upper church was opened. It took place in 1768.
The temple was adjacent to the parish cemetery, which eventually becameabandoned. At the end of the 19th century, the iconostasis was updated. At this point, the temple was visited by five hundred parishioners, and the church owned 90 acres of arable land.
30s of the 20th century - the period of the closure of the Resurrection Church in Voronezh, as well as many other churches throughout the country. Here they began to store products produced by the light industry.
In the Great Patriotic War, the occupation period began in Voronezh. Then the church bell tower was used as an observation post. The Soviet government destroyed the temple. Only the first floor remained. The dome of the church was burned down, the brick walls 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.
The revival of the temple
But it's time for a rebirth. Now parishioners are actively attending the church:
- children aged 6-12 come to Sunday school;
- adults are engaged in the icon-painting workshop;
- they work with children 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 every day you can attend the service.
Every year, on August 20, an important event of the procession takes place here, led 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 30 meters above the ground. AroundThe church is located on a plot of land measuring 175 acres.
Diocese information
The Voronezh diocese was founded on 1681-27-11 by separating it from such dioceses as Ryazan and Belgorod. This part, which is patronized by the Voronezh Metropolis.
The Voronezh diocese has become a unifying force that connected the territories of parishes and monasteries in Voronezh and nearby cities. The ruling bishop of the diocese is Metropolitan Sergius, known in the world as Fomin Vitaly Pavlovich.
Description of the temple
As mentioned above, the date of foundation of the Resurrection Church in Voronezh is 1752. Having survived centuries of prosperity and years of ruin, today the church consists of 213 rooms, including temples and other prayer rooms: chapels and prayer rooms.
291 clerics serve in the temple, of which 253 are priests and 38 are 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 matter.
Tips for visitors
Address of the Church of the Resurrection in Voronezh: Ordzhonikidze street, 19b. To attend worship services, you should take into account the time of their conduct:
8:00 - Liturgy.
10:30 – Baptism.
16:00 - evening service.
The parishioners of the cathedral with particular trepidation treat the icon of the Mother of God, the image of which was dedicated to the second chapel of the temple. itKazan Mother of God, who helps in overcoming troubles and illnesses, 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, the veneration of the icon is also held on the 4th day of November.
The Virgin is addressed with these words:
Troparion, tone 4:
Zealous Intercessor, Mother of the Lord Vyshnyago, for all pray to Your Son, Christ our God, and work for everyone to be saved, in Your sovereign cover resorting. Intercede for all of us, O Lady Queen and Mistress, and in misfortunes and sorrows and in illnesses, burdened with many sins, coming and praying to You with a touched soul and a contrite heart before Your most pure image with tears, and irrevocably the hope of those who have on Thee, the deliverance of all evils, give everything useful and save everything, Virgin Mother of God: Thou art the Divine cover of Thy servant.
Kontakion, tone 8:
Priest, people, to this quiet and good haven, quick Helper, ready and warm salvation, the cover of the Virgin: let us hasten to prayer and sweat for repentance: the Most Pure Mother of God exudes for us inexhaustible mercy, anticipates help and delivers from the great troubles and evils of the well-behaved and God-fearing servants of His own.
Magnificent:
We magnify Thee, Blessed Virgin, God-chosen Maiden, and honor Your holy image, and bring healing to all who flow with faith.
Prayer:
O Blessed Lady Lady Mother of God! With fear, faith and love, falling down before Your honest icon, we pray to You: do not turn Your face away from those who resort toTo you, begged the merciful Mother, Your Son and our God, the Lord Jesus Christ, may he preserve our peaceful country, keep His Holy Church unshakable from unbelief, heresies and schism. Not imams of other help, not imams of other hope, unless you, Most Pure Virgin: You are the All-Powerful Helper and Intercessor of Christians. Deliver all those who pray to You with faith from the falls of sin, from the calumny of evil people, from all temptations, sorrows, troubles and from vain death: grant us the spirit of contrition, humility of heart, purity of mind, correction of sinful lives and the forgiveness of sins, and all gratefully singing greatness Yours, we will be worthy of the Kingdom of Heaven and there with all the saints we will glorify the Most Honorable and Magnificent Name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Continuing the description of the Church of the Resurrection in Voronezh, we should talk about the cabinet - a museum that 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 an office-museum belongs to Archpriest Vasily Volodko. The assembly of the museum 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 their part in replenishing the museum.
The museum of the temple has over a hundred exhibits. Here you can find items that made up the church sacristy. Since they are no longer in use, they were placed foracquaintance in the museum.
Thanks to the creation of a permanent exhibition, here you can study the history of the temple in detail. The museum is named after the rector 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 that can be used to judge the nature of the life of the parish in past times:
- metal crosses - 19th century crucifixes;
- vessels in which it was customary to store oil;
- camera obscura and pictures of Palestine;
- iconographic images of various types;
- elements of church utensils and robes of priests.
There is no charge to visit this museum.
Summarize
The Resurrection Church in Voronezh was founded in 1752. Previously, the Kosmodemyanskaya Church was located on the site of the temple. Since that time, the building has experienced its heyday and almost complete destruction, serving as a warehouse.
At the end of the 20th century, it was restored and has since been revived. Today it is a functioning temple, which has a Sunday school for children and adults. Here they work with sick children, there is a museum room.
Services in the Resurrection Church are held every day both in the morning and in the evening.
