The Temple of Xenia of Petersburg in Beskudnikovo today and tomorrow

In the spring of 2014, among the new multi-storey houses, a worship cross was erected in a sign that the temple of Xenia of Petersburg in Beskudnikovo will stand on this place, for the joy of local residents. The land was granted free of charge by the Moscow authorities under the "Program-200" (two hundred new churches of the city for residents in walking distance). In the summer they started building a temporary church chapel made of wood and, working tirelessly, with God's help completed it by the fall. On October 25, he was consecrated, and after the festive Divine Liturgy the new parish began to live its life.

Temple-chapel of Xenia of Petersburg

In the new modern microdistrict, built on the site of five-story "Khrushchev", people were drawn to a small church, the rector of which was Archpriest Orest Orshak. Immediately here, divine services and rituals of the sacrament began to be held. The parishioners who fell in love with their small temple of Xenia of Petersburg in Beskudnikovo, visit it on holidays and weekdays, rejoice at the opportunities to pray, to visit God's house, meet new acquaintances, find attention and care here.

The higher clergy, visiting the temple, conducts services, meets with ordinary people. Moscow authorities also do not ignore him. Church attendants of neighboring parishes are frequent guests here. The temple has many friends. деревянной колокольне, построенной рядом, в марте 2015 года раздались колокольные звоны. We were delighted with the whole world when in March 2015, on the wooden bell-tower built next to each other , there were ringing bells. A small ensemble of five bells cast in a Moscow workshop, carefully selected according to euphony.

Today the temple lives an active life. Here, according to the schedule, services are held, a Sunday school for children is open , a classroom for icon painting is open, a youth club is organized, social assistance is provided to those who need it, pilgrimage trips and much more.

The Life of Xenia Blessed

XVIII века в Петербурге, внезапно осталась двадцатишестилетней вдовой. A prosperous woman, who lived in St. Petersburg in the middle of the eighteenth century, suddenly remained a twenty-six-year-old widow. The fast death of a beloved husband without repentance and communion so shocked Xenia that, from the point of view of her family, she began to commit "insane" deeds. By giving away all the property to poor people, including her house, she devoted her life to the slandering of her husband's sins, which he did not have time to beg, having chosen a strange way for those around him.

Assuring that her husband is alive, she went about dressing him, responded only to his name and prayed, prayed. Residents of the city first drove her, and then got used to the holy fool at the temple of the Apostle Matthew. Without doing any harm to anyone, she asked the Lord and for them and distributed the money received to other beggars. Over time, people noticed that the warmed and fed Xenia received from God a hundredfold. Things went uphill, the sick loved ones recovered, the hearted affairs got better.

When the church was closed for the night, Xenia went to pray in the field. Standing on her knees in winter and praying to the Almighty, she acquired the gift of clairvoyance, which she generously shared with others. Blessed Xenia loved people, helped them, than she could, without asking anything for herself. People believed her, asked for help, asked for intercession. Many good deeds are described in her life. Among others - anonymous help at night to the builders of the church in the Smolensk cemetery in St. Petersburg, where she was buried, who died at 71. Already there is no that church, the chapel, set in the memory of Xenia, is destroyed, and people, having built a new one, are still going to her grave with a plea for help.

The Temple of Xenia of Petersburg in Beskudnikovo in the future

Residents of the neighborhood are proud of their temporary wooden church, because in Moscow there are only two of them, built in honor of this saint. They believe that there will be on this place a large stone church of Xenia of Petersburg in Beskudnikovo. For this there is every reason. In February 2016, at a meeting in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, it was announced that work had begun on the design of a new church in Beskudnikovo.

"The temple will be crowned with golden heads, the brick walls will be white. In the niches set the mosaic icons ... ".

Collecting donations for design work, parishioners believe that in the near future next to their beautiful houses will grow a new large temple of Xenia of Petersburg in Beskudnikovo. How to get from the center to Beskudnikovsky travel, d. 4, possession of 4? Very simply: from the metro station "Petrovo-Razumovskaya" by bus 149 or 677 to the stop "Universam".