The Transfiguration Cathedral of the Tolshevsky Monastery is an Orthodox church of the Voronezh diocese . Located in the village of Tolshi , the urban district of Voronezh, Voronezh region .
| Orthodox church | |
| Cathedral of the Transfiguration | |
|---|---|
| Transfiguration Cathedral in Tolshevsky Transfiguration Monastery | |
 Cathedral of the Transfiguration of the Tolshevsky Monastery | |
| A country |  Russia |
| City | Voronezh , Railway District , Art. Count , pos. Tolshi |
| Denomination | Orthodoxy |
| Diocese | Voronezh |
| Reverence | Monastic Deanery |
| Architectural style | Russian style |
| Builder | V. N. Shebalin |
| First mention | 1694 year |
| Established | 1884 year |
| Chapels | Nicholas the Wonderworker Mitrofan and Tikhon |
| Status |  An object of cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation of regional significance. Reg. No. 361510326670035 ( EGROKN ). (Wikigid database) |
| condition | acting |
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History
The Transfiguration Church is located on the territory of the Tolshevsky Monastery . The monastery has been known since the mid-17th century under the name Konstantinovskaya Desert named after the first hermit Konstantin, who settled here in the first half of the 17th century. The exact date of the monastery is not defined, various sources indicate different times - from 1615 to 1646. In the study of Peter Nikolsky , published in 1901-1902, you can read:
| ... 40 miles from the newly formed city of Voronezh, in a dense forest that covered the banks of the Usman River, a number of lonely beekeepers appeared at the beginning of the 17th century. A beekeeper by the name of Konstantin turned his beekeeper's place into the deserts. At first, the bee's wattle fence served as its fence, and the cells were, if not hollows, then unpretentious huts. Instead of the church there was a chapel. Naturally, the monk-beekeeper dedicated this chapel to the memory of the patrons of beekeeping St. Solovetsky devotees of Zosima and Savvaty. Subsequently, the church was dedicated to their names. The name of the monastery by Tolsami, Tolshevsky or Tolshevsky indicates those gigantic thickets of trees, among which the little Konstantinova desert sheltered. At the beginning of the XYII century, the boyar children of the Parenago clan settled in the vicinity of this desert and became the founders of the monastery in the usual sense of the word. They built monastic buildings on the banks of the Usman River, having allocated part of their dacha, and all this was transferred to the Konstantinovsky brotherhood to commemorate their parents ... The final consolidation of land for the monastery took place in 1684. In addition, in 1646 the monastery was given the place “for siege time” in the town of Usman, because at times, the monks had to flee from the Tatar raids in the neighboring fortress. |
The first wooden church of the Tolshevsky monastery was built in 1694 and since then the monastery began to be called the Transfiguration of the Savior or Spassky. Another wooden church of the monastery, consecrated in honor of Zosima and Savvaty, burned down in a strong fire in 1706. In 1752 , with the blessing of the Voronezh lord Bishop Feofilakt (Gubanov) , instead of the wooden Transfiguration Church, a stone church was laid with two chapels: in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker and in the name of the Monks Zosima and Savvatiy Solovetsky . The church was consecrated in 1759 in honor of the Transfiguration of the Lord and has survived to this day. The temple was beautifully painted, iconostases were updated, and an iron roof was made. A stone belfry was later built. In 1799 the church was rebuilt. [1] In 1832, instead of the reverend Zosima and Savvaty, the right side chapel of the refectory church was consecrated in the name of St. Metrophanes . In 1884 [2] according to the project of the Voronezh provincial architect V. Shebalin, the temple was again rebuilt with the main throne in honor of the Transfiguration of the Lord. [3] The aisles in the new church were consecrated: the right - in honor of St. Nicholas, and the left - in the name of St. Mitrofan and Tikhon . In 1885-1886, a one-story refectory with rooms for the sacristy and library was added to the temple part of the Transfiguration Church. The monastery library consisted of many books of the ХYII and XYIII centuries. After the revolution of 1917, the monastery was completely looted. In 1932 the monastery, and with it the church were closed. The territory with all the buildings was transferred to the Count's Reserve . The temple housed a library, and then a club. In June 1994, with the blessing of the Holy Synod, the revival of the Tolshevsky Transfiguration of the Savior Monastery, transformed into a female one, began. The looted and disfigured temple was again restored, in which even the domes were not preserved, its arches were painted again. [four]
Current status
Currently, the Transfiguration Church of the Tolshevsky Monastery by the resolution of the administration of the Voronezh Region N 850 of 08/14/95 is an object of historical and cultural heritage of regional significance. [five]
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Notes
- ↑ Reference book for the clergy of the Voronezh Diocese. 1900 edition
- ↑ Russian churches
- ↑ S.V. Bulgakov "Russian monasteries in 1913"
- ↑ Holy Travel Site
- ↑ bestpravo.com Russian legislation Official site
Links
- Voronezh diocese Official site
- Folk catalog of Orthodox architecture [sobory.ru]
- Temples of Russia [1]
- Russian Churches Temples of the Central Black Earth Region