Schedule of services in the church at the Transfiguration cemetery. Orthodox church of svt

• Full name: Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker at the Transfiguration Cemetery.
• Short names among the people: Nikolskaya Church, Nikolsky Church, St. Nicholas Church, St. Nicholas Church.
• Affiliation: Resurrection Deanery of the Eastern Vicariate of Moscow.
• The abbot is Priest Alexy Timakov.
• The nearest metro station: "Preobrazhenskaya Square".
• In the church at the Preobrazhensky cemetery, you can submit a note of repose, as well as order treasures - a funeral service, a requiem, a magpie.

The temple was built at the end of the 18th century as the Old Believer Cathedral of the Assumption Church. In the next century, the Old Believer community split, part of the parishioners adopted the same faith, and an Orthodox throne was consecrated in the refectory in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. At present, the front, Assumption part of the church is occupied by the Old Believers of the bespopov Novopomorsk persuasion, and the Orthodox Church of St. Nicholas with two side-chapels operates in the refectory.

The address of the church at the Preobrazhensky cemetery:

Saint Nicholas at the Transfiguration cemetery, 1966

The monastery was built in the 1784-1790s. Only then did it have a slightly different purpose and bore a different name. It was the Assumption Cathedral in the pseudo gothic style, which was built by the Fedoseevskaya Old Believer community.

For reference: Fedoseevites are Old Believers who do not accept the priesthood. In everyday life they are called bespopovtsy. This direction of the Old Believers has its own characteristics, for example, conviction in the coming of the kingdom of Antichrist and in the absolute corruption of the Russian state. One more characteristic Fedoseevites - celibacy.

For a long time, V.I.Bazhenov was considered the architect of the building, since he is the most famous architect who worked in the false Gothic style. However, now researchers are inclined to believe that it was built by FK Sokolov.

In the early 1850s. the Old Believers were accused of high treason. Therefore, in 1854, after the collapse of the Old Believer community, some of the parishioners turned into co-religionists. Uspenskaya was transferred to them. According to P.V.Sinitsyn's description, it was made of stone with a single dome and a low bell tower towering over the western porch. There were many ancient icons in the temple, worth tens of thousands of rubles. Today, it still contains beautiful ancient icons of the Stroganov, Novgorod, Korsun and other schools of icon painting of the 15th-17th centuries.

Saint Nicholas at the Transfiguration cemetery

In the 1854-1857s. was rebuilt according to the project of the architect Alexander Vivien. The Nikolsky side-altar was set up in the refectory, and the day when Metropolitan Philaret consecrated it (April 3, 1854) can be considered a birthday Church of Nicholas at the Preobrazhensky cemetery... In 1857, after adding an altar apse to the main volume of the temple, the Metropolitan consecrated the main altar in the name of the Assumption Holy Mother of God.

In 1866 the co-religion Nikolsky was founded at the church, and the monastery itself turned into his cathedral. Looking ahead, let us say that today little is left of the monastery's architectural ensemble (in addition to the Nikolskaya monastery): the Exaltation Church, the bell tower, cell buildings and several service buildings.

In the early 20s. closed, and the dormitory of the Radio plant is located in it. shared among themselves the co-religionists, who settled in the Assumption part of the monastery, and the renovationists, who were in the refectory part of the church and added a new Assumption side-chapel to it.

By 1930, the community of the same faith had disintegrated, and the Dormition part of the church was transferred to the Bezopovites of the Novopomorian persuasion (unlike the Fedoseevites, they prayed for the emperor), who still occupy it today. The Nikolskaya part of the monastery belongs to the Russian Orthodox Church. That is Church of Nicholas at the Preobrazhensky cemetery divided into two parts: Orthodox (western entrance) and Old Believers (entrance from the north).

The building was built of red brick, with which the white decorative elements contrast well - these are curls, and peaks, and teeth, as well as multi-stage cornices with ornaments. Attention is also drawn to the semi-columns - both large, at the entrances, and small ones that are separated by the lancet windows of the light drum. False windows decorated with weights also look great. In a word, there is everything that is typical for pseudo-Russian Gothic.

Nikolsky temple on Preobrazhenka is an architectural monument of local importance.

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Old Believer cemetery and monastery

Later, Kovylin received the Highest permission for the construction of the Preobrazhensky almshouse. The monastery was surrounded by a stone fence with towers at the corners. Here the Fedoseevsky bespopovskaya office is located - the center of the Fedoseevsky sense of the Old Believers - in which they carried out the trial and reprisals, elected and approved the spiritual fathers, sending them around the country. At the Preobrazhensky cemetery, under the direction of the architect Fyodor Kirillovich Sokolov, a whole ensemble of buildings was erected: a cathedral chapel (later a temple) in honor of the Assumption of the Most Holy Theotokos (-); an almshouse with a prayer room (-); the gate chapel, later the Holy Cross Church (-).

Temples, architecture

The surviving ensemble of the former monastery includes the Assumption (Nikolsky) cathedral church; fraternal building (hospital ward, in the eastern part of the monastery); gate building with the Exaltation of the Cross Church; the service building (two one-story buildings from the north-west and from the south-west of the cell building, architecturally similar to the abbot's cell); a bell tower; fragment of the western wall (to the north of the gate Church of the Exaltation of the Cross). Two one-story stone cells to the north of the Assumption Church were renovated and turned into a church gatehouse by the year. In the eastern corner there is another two-story building (the 1st floor is stone, the 2nd is wooden). To the south of the Assumption Church there are three new two-storey barn-like buildings. In the northwest corner there is a one-storey building (building No. 4). In the southwest corner there is a fenced-in utility and construction site.

Assumption (Nikolsky) Cathedral Church

A dark red brick church with yellow ornaments was erected in the years as a cathedral chapel in honor of the Assumption of the Most Holy Theotokos. In the year, the chapel passed to the Orthodox co-religionists as a parish church, in connection with which an altar was needed for the service of the Liturgy, and a chapel was built in the refectory in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. Then an apse was erected for the main altar, and in the year the central Dormition throne was consecrated. In the 1920s, the Uspenskaya (main) and Nikolskaya (refectory) parts were separated by a deaf brick wall, in connection with the joint use of the temple by the two communities; at the same time, a new Assumption side-chapel was built in the Nikolskaya part.

Hospital wards (Brothers' cells) with Trinity and St. John the Theological prayer room

The brick two-story building of the men's almshouse with the Old Believer prayer house was built in the year. On both sides of the prayer room there were stone chambers and two-storey round "retirades" with stone passages to them.

Bell tower

The free-standing red brick bell tower was built in the Gothic style during the 18th century. By the 1960s, the roof of the bell tower had collapsed, and the entire building had become very black. In the late 1970s, the bell tower was repaired and the cross was gilded. As of the 1990s, there were no bells on the bell tower, and the passage was closed with a fence.

Abbots

Monastic

• Tarasius (May 15 - July 1866)
• Onufry (Sails) (July 1866 - mid. 1867)
• Paphnutiy (Ovchinnikov) (ser. 1867 - June 10, 1868)
• Pavel (Lednev) (June 11, 1868 - April 27, 1895)
• Jerome (May 1895 - mid 1896)
• Sergius (ser. 1896 - 1908)
• Mina (Shustov) (1908 - April 17, 1911)
• Nikanor (Kudryavtsev) (October 1911 - October 30, 1923), bishop. Bogorodsky

Parish

• Nikolay Sinkovsky (? - 1955)
• Vasily Studenov (? - 1973)
• Vadim Grishin (1974 - 1981)
• Leonid Kuzminov (February 6, 1981 - December 29, 2016)
• Alexy Timakov (since January 31, 2017)