The Church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin is an Orthodox church of the Russian Orthodox Church ( Novosibirsk Diocese ) in the city of Novosibirsk . The wooden building of the church, the only chopped "paw" temple, which survived the city after the fire of 1909 , is a monument of architecture (since 1990 ) and is under state protection.
| Orthodox church | |
| Church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin | |
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| A country |  Russia |
| City | Novosibirsk |
| Denomination | orthodoxy |
| Diocese | Novosibirsk |
| Founding date | 1901 |
| Key Dates | |
| 1906 - Construction of a porch with a bell tower 1939 - Closing of the church 1994 - Consecration of the newly opened temple 2002 - Beginning of the reconstruction of the church 2009 - Completion of the reconstruction of the church | |
| Relics and Shrines | honored icon of the Kazan Mother of God , relics of Nikolai Alma-Atinsky , Matrona of Moscow , Theodore Ushakov , part of the robe of the Virgin |
| The abbot | Archpriest Alexander Matruk |
| Status |  Identified object of cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation ( Regulatory Act ). (Wikigid database) |
| condition | active temple |
| Site | pokrov-nsk.ru |
Church History
The church was laid down on May 16 (29), 1901 , it became the third temple of Novonikolayevsk after the Church of the Prophet Daniel ( 1898 ) and the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral ( 1899 ). On the site of the church from 1895 there was a prayer house. Funds for the construction came from local philanthropists and the parish guardianship of the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral. A new temple was consecrated on December 10 (23), 1901 . The throne of the temple was consecrated in honor of the Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos . Initially, the church was assigned to the parish of Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, and only in 1913 received an independent parish.
( 1913 - 1915 years )
When the church was built since the school was located. To ensure the educational process in 1906, the building was significantly expanded due to the extension of the extensive classrooms on the west side, a porch with a bell tower and covered canopy was built. On January 13, 1906, at the parish meeting, it was decided to open a “Nursery” orphanage at the church “ for the permanent care of homeless children of both sexes and for day care for young children of mothers leaving home for day-to-day work ”. After the establishment, the shelter was located in the building of the parish school, and in 1907 a separate building was built for it. In 1910, a new two-story brick parochial school was built near the temple according to the design of the architect A. D. Kryachkov .
After the October Revolution of 1917, the church continued to exist; in the 1920s Part of the clergy and parishioners moved to the “ Renovationism, ” the remaining ones formed the Old-Pokrovsk community. On March 8, 1938, the church bells were removed from the church bell tower, and in 1939 the church was closed. The building was given under the drama school, then under the house of folk art, later it housed various institutions. During this period, the bell tower over the porch and the drum with a tent and a cupola above the eastern part of the temple were dismantled and the building lost the appearance of the temple building.
In the early 1990s, the Novosibirsk Bishop Tikhon (Emelyanov) appealed to the administration of the Novosibirsk Region with a petition for the return of the church building. In 1993, the decision of the administration of the Novosibirsk region, it was transferred to the jurisdiction of the Novosibirsk diocese . October 14, 1994 the temple was consecrated and reopened to believers.
In 1998 it was decided to reconstruct the dilapidated wooden church building. A project was developed, including the restoration of the bell tower and the drum with hipped roof and domes. In January 2002, restoration work began. The old building was completely disassembled, a new basement was built on which a new church building was erected from wood and the pre-revolutionary building completely repeating its outlines and details. On February 15, 2004, a small consecration of the restored temple took place.
In June 2009, construction work on the reconstruction of the church was completed. On June 27, Archbishop Tikhon, in co-operation with the clergy of the Novosibirsk diocese, made a moleben with the consecration of the church. Then a procession took place.
Current State
After the restoration, the church was numbered as a soldier, its rector is the chairman of the diocesan department for interaction with the Armed Forces. There is a library and a Sunday school at the temple. Since 2004, the activity has begun on the churching of deaf-mute and hearing-impaired people. The first liturgy with sign language was served on October 2, 2004. From now on, on Sundays and holidays, church services are held regularly for people with hearing impairments. Also for such people at the church there is a Sunday school.
Since 1998, the church has been operating a sisterhood that provides assistance to the Novosibirsk Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics and the military district hospital. In 2003, a chapel was opened in the military hospital in honor of St. Luke (Voyno-Yasenetsky) , and at the Institute of Traumatology in honor of the Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos.
The rector of the church since 2008 is Archpriest Alexander Matruk, the rector of the Novosibirsk Holy Makaryevsky Orthodox Theological Institute . The temple is located at: Novosibirsk, st. October , 9.