St. Nicholas Monastery (Bolshoklachye)

Question about the period of occurrence

According to the information of the former abbot of the monastery, Father Savvatiy, archival documents show that the history of the monastery originates from the founding of Omsk. In the 1720s in the region of the created city at the spring, the water of which helped from leg and spine diseases, the first Orthodox pilgrims appeared, and in 1751 a wooden church was built ^[3] .

In fact, the monastery in its present form was founded in 1995 on the basis of the reconstructed stone church of St. Nicholas and the Wonderworker, the original of which was built on this site in 1905 , but destroyed in 1936 . At the same time, he is considered the successor of the first Pokrovsky monastery , founded in 1896 in the Omsk, Tarskoy and Semipalatinsk eparchy ^[3] .

Holy source and appearance of church

The first mention of the construction of a church in the village of Kulachinskoe (or Bolsheklachye), which appeared near the source, was associated with the year 1751 , when a local resident, Ivan Mironovich Kruglov, and his fellow villagers set up a wooden pine church in the name of St. Nicholas and the Wonderworker. By 1793, the wooden church with a bell tower "became hard to be safe" and the inhabitants of the village built a new wooden church on a stone foundation over the summer, but now with a chapel in honor of the Holy Martyrs Kirik and Julitta.

Building a stone temple

In 1905, a stone church was built on the site of the wooden church in honor of the Saint and the Wonderworker Nicholas without side-chapels. According to legends, a bishop was buried behind the temple - a priest of high spiritual rank. In 1936, they closed down and destroyed it, along with it the church cemetery was also liquidated. In place of the temple was established a colony of gulag for the content of the repressed ^[3] .

In 1989, with the blessing of Theodosius (Protsyuk) , the restoration of the temple began. By 1990, a temporary cover was erected over the temple, the bell tower and the tent were restored, but only in the spring of 1994 , just before Easter, 60 years later, the village was again announced with a bell ringing. In 1995, St. Nicholas Monastery was established. In 1997, an optimal architectural and constructive solution was developed for a single-dome covering of the central part of the temple with a light drum. It did not violate the architectural style of the building and made it possible to expand the central part due to the extension of the two aisles on the southern and northern sides. In 2002, the construction of the chapels was completed. With the blessing of His Eminence Theodosius, Metropolitan of Omsk and Tarsk, the northern chapel was consecrated in honor of the Holy Royal Martyrs, and the southern in honor of the Holy Martyrs Kirik and Iulitta. In the summer of 2007, the walls of the southern chapel were painted by an icon painter from Bulgaria, Angel Bogdanov Radushev.

The St. Nicholas Monastery includes the Church in honor of St. Nicholas of the Miraclean; cell enclosures fraternity; refectory and almshouse; holy spring and a chapel in honor of the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos Life-giving spring (southeastern outskirts of the village of Bolshoklachye), three monasteries: honor of the icon of the Most Holy Mother of God Inexhaustible Chalice (2 km north of the monastery), in honor of St. Rev. Alexander Svirsky (on the banks of the Irtysh in 5 km kilometers from the monastery), in honor of the Holy Blessed Basil, Christ for the Foolish, Moscow Wonderworker (in the village of Vyatka, Ust-Ishimsky District), a courtyard in honor of the holy Righteous Simeon of Verkhoturye (in the village of Kaisy, 5 km from the Vyatka Monastery) ^[4] .

According to the information of the former abbot of the monastery, Father Savvatiy, the monastery is visited by tourists and pilgrims from neighboring regions, near and far abroad, in particular, Germany , Great Britain , and Greece . He reports on many facts of the deliverance of people who have visited the monastery from their serious illnesses. In particular, says Savvaty, one woman was healed of cancer, another refused to think about suicide ^[3] .

• Vitaly (Klaritsky) (1995–2005)
• Savvaty (Zagrebelny) (2005—2012)
• Zosima (Balin) (since 2013)

• Russian Orthodox Church. Moscow Patriarchate. Omsk and Tarsk Diocese. Omsk blessing (Neopr.) . - St. Nicholas Monastery. The appeal date is May 31, 2012. Archived September 12, 2012.
• The official website of the St. Nicholas Monastery
• The procession to the chapel in honor of the icon of the Mother of God "Life-giving Spring" (Neopr.) (April 20, 2012). The appeal date is May 31, 2012. Archived September 12, 2012.