Churches and temples of Yaroslavl

The city of Yaroslavl has various churches and temples of different appearance and size, but all of them are sacred places, namolennye. After visiting the Upper Volga, Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich (the third son of Emperor Alexander II and Empress Maria Alexandrovna) said: there are more of those in Yaroslavl than in Moscow. Most of the modern guests of the ancient city confirm: wherever you turn, there are golden domes everywhere. The former settlement seems to be crossed by the cross.

Temple and church

Visiting the temples of Yaroslavl, you can quench your sorrows, and also touch the history of the city, which is more than a thousand years old (1006!). Before continuing the conversation, it is worth discussing how the concepts "temple" and "church" differ. Although these are synonyms, they are not always interchangeable.

The first word came from Old Russian "mansions", "temple". The second is from the Greek kyriakon ("the house of the Lord"). The system of the universe and the temples are interrelated. In Christians (and not only), they are oriented around the world model of the universe. Often the structure has the form of a cross.

The room with the altar set in its eastern part, and the meal - is the simplest church. Initially, believers gathered in a room, talked on religious topics, prayed. Christians go to save the soul in the cathedral, the church, the church, the church; Jews to the synagogue; Supporters of Islam - in the mosque.

From wooden to stone

To sum up: the temple is a building for worship. But it differs in that it is larger than the church, decorated with three (or more) domes, there are several altars, if two (or three) priests serve several liturgies daily.

The church is a community of people of one faith. The building has one dome. Even if there are two priests, the cycle of spiritual hymns sounds during the day once. Until the seventeenth century, the churches of Yaroslavl were built of wood. After another terrible fire, which happened in 1658, when almost the entire city was destroyed, stone buildings began to appear. The Transfiguration Cathedral (the beginning of the 16th century) is the oldest. Built on the site of the cathedral of the XIII century.

Church of the Cross

Its modern address is Moskovsky Prospekt, 161. It is known from the history of the district that the church was founded in the seventeenth century. Krestoborodsky temple (Yaroslavl), then still wooden, was consecrated in 1677. His appearance was preceded by an epidemic of plague (pestilence). She came from the south, from Moscow and inexorably gathered her terrible harvest.

It was necessary to put a screening disease. Jonah Sysoyevich - Metropolitan of Yaroslavl and Rostov decided that it would be a wooden cross three meters high. It was made and painted by the master of the Savior-Transfiguration Monastery. The townspeople carried the shrine in their arms, drove them on horseback to meet the plague wave.

In one place the horses stopped, as if dead, and no one could force them to continue their journey. Here and installed the Cross. It is believed that due to this the sea did not enter Yaroslavl. A stone church was built in 1760. The wooden three-meter defender of the city and the power of the Saints of God are the main shrines. Daily worship is conducted. On Sunday and on holidays - two liturgies (at 07:00 and 09:00).

Elijah the Prophet

The architectural and art school in the beginning of the XVI century not only developed, but also reached an unprecedented heyday. Ancient temples of Yaroslavl show a wall of special value. These are the best examples of medieval monumentalism. The middle of the seventeenth century was marked by the appearance of such a shrine as the temple of Elijah the Prophet (Yaroslavl, Soviet Sq., 1).

It was built in the period from 1647 to 1650 by order of the Skripnin merchants, where the wooden churches of Ilinskaya and Pokrovskaya were previously located. A complex ensemble was conceived. The components are in harmony with each other.

The basis is the five-headed chetverik. Unusual bulbous domes of dark green color (5). Painted the temple Gury Nikitin - eminent master of fresco painting, icon painting and miniature. Side: Rizopolozhensky, Pokrovsky, Guria, Samon and Aviv. The structure is called the pearl of Yaroslavl architecture. There are other churches in Yaroslavl that can admire and shake with their beauty and grandeur.

Strict and generous

Why Elijah the Prophet? Tradition says that Yaroslavl was founded on the day of the memory of this saint (in the old style on July 20, in a new way - on August 2). Strict, generous, omnipotent - so it is characterized in Orthodoxy. Ilya was approached to help in hunting, when treatment (healing) was to be in love.

Painting of the church of Elijah is a combination of two traditions: the primordial Russian (for centuries it developed under Byzantine influence) and a new one (it was formed by the XVII century). The secularization of culture, characteristic of that time, led to the fact that there are many everyday scenes in the painting. The temple is well preserved. The services are conducted from the Trinity to the Intercession every Sunday and on major holidays.

The Good News

The Annunciation Church (Yaroslavl) is the Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin on 3rd Yakovlevskaya Street. Information from the archives of the XIX century says that it was built in 1769 on the donations of parishioners. There is an opinion that originally a wooded and marshy wilderness became a shelter for a small wooden monastery, which the Polish conquerors ravaged.

There is no documented evidence, but there are old Holy Gates. Later in the area of Yakovlevskaya Sloboda there was a wooden church. In 1778 the stone was founded in its place. First summer (cold church). By 1783 completed the construction of the bell tower and the winter temple (warm church). They are united by an arch and a bell tower.

Other foundation dates are also called. Probably, the consecration was carried out in stages, at the end of each cycle of work. From the Miraculous Image of the Honest and Life-Giving Cross (a wooden one, with the carved crucifixion of Christ, framed), and today comes an unspeakable light, he reveres. This is the main shrine of the church of the Annunciation.

Dreamed of a dream and was found

The custom of the Godfather on the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross has been renewed since 2008. Interesting is the tradition, which goes back to the middle of the fourteenth century. The landowner from Kostroma, suffering from a serious illness, stopped for the night at the Yakovlevsky Monastery (that same one in the marshes and forests). At night, he dreamed of a Healing Cross coming from the earth.

He ordered his servants to dig in a place that he remembered well. And a miracle happened: they extracted a valuable find in the light of God. The patient was attached to the shrine and was healed. In the Soviet times, the Blagoveshchensko-Yakovlevsky temple was not closed to the castle, although many other churches in Yaroslavl went into oblivion.

Three icons are worshiped: the Apostle James with the Life, the Annunciation of the Mother of God and the Mother of God "Burning Bush". Perhaps they were temple in wooden churches. With the blessing of Vladika Joseph, Father Michael Stark ordered the icon of the Blessed Virgin "The Inexhaustible Chalice". The interior of the temple is harmonious and thought out. At the heart of the decoration are the icons of the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. The temple is open daily. On Sunday and on holidays two liturgies are served - at 07:00 and 09:00.

St Tikhon

It is worth mentioning the Tikhonovsky Temple (Yaroslavl, Panina Street, Dzerzhinsky District). Full name of it - St. Tikhon. The work on the construction of an unusual architectural structure in the style of the twelfth-fourteenth centuries lasts almost ten years. The completion is scheduled for 2017. His name was received in honor of the eleventh Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, St. Tikhon (in the world Vasily Ivanovich Belavin, 1865-1925 gg.).

They say that the flock belonged to the head of the Yaroslavl diocese (1907-1914) with great love, honored him for patience and humanity. He was a reasonable, accessible archpastor. The decision to build a new church was made in 1989. Archpriest Michael Peregudov took the case, and Archbishop of Micah of Yaroslavl blessed him for the fulfillment of the difficult task.

Peregudov and his family made great efforts to have a chapel and a chapel "Unexpected Joy" appeared on the wasteland (bare ground).

Opening soon

Buildings have begun the construction of the temple. In June 2002, the parish began to operate under the direction of Archpriest Mikhail Smirnov (born in 1970). He graduated from the Yaroslavl Art College and the Architectural and Construction Faculty of the Polytechnic Institute (now the Technical University). Participates in the project, developed by VN Izhikov (the author of many Orthodox churches, the architect-restorer).

It will be a three-temple temple, the height from the ground to the cross is fifty meters. Construction is conducted by the whole world. It means different assistance: in the form of physical labor, financial investments, prayers. A Sunday school for children and adults has been operating since 2004. Library - since 2005. The book fund already totals more than seven thousand items of storage. 2017, when the temple will finally enter into the operation of the acting, not far off.

Come to the city of Yaroslavl! Temples and churches will conquer your heart, warm your soul, raise your thoughts!