Trekhsvyatskoe (Kaluga region)

The first mentions of the Three Saints are found in historical papers dated to the middle of the XVII century and related to the Temple “in honor of the holy martyrs Guri, Samon and Aviv”.

During the Patriotic War of 1812, army foragers confiscated pigs and chickens, rye, barley, hay, and straw from the personal farm of Father Philip. Often the priests themselves plowed and performed peasant work. The abbot reported to the diocese:

For all that we have the most necessary content, and there is nothing to keep the livestock we have, and nothing was left to sow the seeds ... ^[2]

Currently, the temple is undergoing restoration work. A house temple was built nearby, in which services are regularly held. Rector of the church Priest Igor Yovbak. ^[2] .

  the current parish of the Russian Orthodox Church

The first written evidence of the temple is found in the records of the village of Tryokhsvyatskoye, dated to the middle of the XVII century , in which the priest Rodion Vasilyev ( 1669 ) is mentioned.

The church in Trekhsvyatsky has long remained wooden. In 1794 it was resumed after a fire. The village was state-owned, and not owner-owned, construction was carried out at the expense of the parishioners.

In the 19th-century Clear Letters it was noted that "a church in Trekhsvyatsky is wooden with the same bell tower, on a stone foundation, the building is strong, under an iron roof, utensils are sufficient."

In 1873, the church of Guria, Samon and Aviv was attributed to the neighboring church of the village of Fedorovskoye. In a report for 1916, priest Ivan Sergeyevich Likhachev wrote that the church and the bell tower in Trekhsvyatsky become dilapidated. A wooden church burned down for an unknown reason in the mid-1920s

At the beginning of the 20th century (1904-1910), at the expense of Alexei Mikhailovich Glukhov, a local resident and owner of a textile minifactory, a stone church was built that operated until 1931 . Triangular gable closures and windows in the arches of the southern and northern facades. In the brickwork of the walls, decorative elements are laid out in the spirit of Russian patterns of the 17th century : kokoshniks , sections of the curb , relief and buried crosses in the masonry, half-columns of platbands.

After the closure of the parish, over time the temple fell into disrepair and was partially destroyed. Currently, design and restoration work is underway. The interior of the temple was put in order. A fence has been installed around the area. Building materials are procured for full recovery. ^{[2] [5] [6]}