In 2005, the restoration of the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Starye Cheryomushki, which was located there in previous years, but fell victim to one of the anti-religious campaigns so often carried out in the Soviet period, was completed. We will tell about the history of this trampled and revived shrine in this article.
Dowry of a young bride
1720 turned out to be a happy year for the hereditary Moscow noblewoman Anna Mikhailovna Pronchishcheva - the Lord sent her a husband, and not just any, but a person of a solid, state adviser. As a dowry, her parents gave her the wasteland, which was located where the houses of the Academic District of the capital now rise, and bought in ancient years by her great-grandfather Nikolai Alekseevich.
That's where the young people settled, building the estate of Troitskoye-Cheryomushki. Why Trinity? In honor of the stone church of the same name, erected on its territory next to the spacious manor house. It stood exactly at the place where today a new temple of the Life-Giving Trinity is built in OldCheryomushki.
The subsequent fate of the temple and the estate
Subsequently, the estate changed hands many times, but since most of the time it was owned by the family of Moscow rich man N. P. Andreev, who bought it in 1810, it became known as Troitskoye-Andreevo.
This first temple of the Life-Giving Trinity in Starye Cheryomushki stood until 1879, but, having come into extreme disrepair, was completely rebuilt by the priest Father John (Zabavin). The necessary funds for the work were donated by one of the pious parishioners of the temple - S. N. Tikhonov. The former building was completely dismantled, and a new one was erected in its place, to which a neoclassical bell tower was subsequently attached.
Desecration of a shrine
During the period of persecution of the church, which followed the coming to power of the Bolsheviks, the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Starye Cheryomushki fully shared the fate of most Russian shrines. Until 1935, his community somehow resisted attacks from the organizers of numerous anti-religious campaigns, but the forces were too unequal. A group of believers could not go against the state policy prevailing in those years for a long time, and as a result, the temple was taken away from them.
The building, once built on the donations of the pious merchant Tikhonov, was distinguished by excellent durability, and the new owners of life, throwing crosses, domes and other symbols alien to their ideology, placed them in a desecrated templeartel for the production of sports equipment.
Death of the Temple
In 1963, the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Starye Cheryomushki was finally destroyed, as it was located on a site that entered the city, and its development was carried out in accordance with the master plan approved by the highest authorities. On the basis of this document, a pool was built where the temple of God used to stand, but very soon, according to Muscovites themselves, it turned into a garbage dump.
The period of the country's spiritual revival
The opportunity to bring the trampled shrine back to life appeared among the residents of the district only with the advent of perestroika. In 1997, an initiative group was created, which turned to the patriarch personally for support. His Holiness not only supported their initiative, but also provided practical assistance, giving his blessing for the creation of a parish community. Shortly thereafter, a meeting was held, during which the composition of the parish council was approved and its chairman was elected.
The last decade of the past century has become a truly fertile period. The new democratic government radically changed its attitude towards religion, putting a lot of effort into restoring previously destroyed shrines.
A shrine reborn from oblivion
Already in March 1999, a place was allocated for future construction. The start of work was preceded by a long period of obtaining permits and creating an architectural project, which was approved in the spring of 2001. It was based onauthentic archival materials, thanks to which the current Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Starye Cheryomushki, the photo of which is given in the article, is as close as possible in its appearance to what was once destroyed by the decree of the godless authorities.
Hundreds of people took part in the restoration work - both professionals and their voluntary assistants. Their work was crowned with a worthy reward - in 2005, on the map of Orthodox Moscow, one more shrine was added to its former shrines - the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Starye Cheryomushki, address: st. Shvernik, 17, box. 1, page 1.
Over the past decade, the temple has firmly taken one of the leading places among the spiritual centers of the capital. The organization of his religious life is led by Archpriest Father Nikolai (Karasev), appointed back in 1999, one of those people whose labors brought the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Starye Cheryomushki back to life.
Schedule of services held in it: on weekdays they start at 8:00 and continue at 17:00. On Sundays and holidays, early mass begins at 7:00 am, late mass at 10:00 am, and evening services at 5:00 pm.
