Temple of the Icon of the Mother of God “All Who Mourn Joy” (Kursk)

In 1799, in Kursk, in the quarter on the corner of Sadovaya and Lazaretnaya (now Semenovskaya) streets, a building was built for the hospital of the Prikaz Prikaz charity ^[1] . In 1830, in the hospital building, a house church was built and consecrated in the name of the Icon of the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Mourn” ^[2] , the center of the main hospital building (now the building of the city polyclinic No. 1, Sadovaya St., 40) was crowned with a dome with a golden cross on a massive light drum , the entrance was in the center of the facade facing Lazaretnaya street ^[3] . At the Church of the Sorrow in 1838, a chapel with a chapel and a cross was erected in the infirmary. In 1842, the church was visited by Emperor Nicholas I , who was present here at the service and granted Archpriest Roman Gladky an expensive ring. In 1867, an autopsy room was organized at the chapel. The abbot of the Grieving Church and the caretaker were responsible for the maintenance of the chapel ^[1] .

After the October Revolution, the house church of the Icon of the Mother of God of All Sorrows of Joy, among other Kursk churches, was closed. In 1936 the belvedere and the dome of the church were broken ^[1] . Until 2004, the chapel building belonged to the buildings of the city hospital No. 1: the accounting department of the hospital, its warehouses, and more recently, the archive of the forensic examination bureau were located here ^[4] . On January 2, 2004, the Orthodox community was formed in honor of the icon of the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow” with the goal of returning and rebuilding this temple, which was registered with the justice authorities on February 6, 2004. On July 23, 2004, the property management committee transferred the building of the former chapel to the newly-formed community for free unlimited use. On July 29, 2004, in the parish in honor of the icon of the Mother of God “All Who Sorrow, Joy,” priest Vadim Sanin was appointed its rector. In August 2004, Metropolitan Juvenal consecrated the antimins for the liturgy in the restored church, and the first service was held on the feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord on August 19, 2004. November 6, 2007 the church was consecrated by the Archbishop of Kursk and Rylsky German ^[2] .

• Logachev N.F., Sklyaruk V.I. House Churches // Kursk. Local history dictionary. - Kursk: UMEX, 1997 .-- S. 442-443. - 10,000 copies. - ISBN 5-89365-005-0 .

• Nelly Efimova. At the temple will open a tourism center (neopr.) . Weekly “ Friend for friend ”, No. 15 (705), 2008 (04/15/2008). Date of treatment May 23, 2012. Archived September 24, 2012.
• The Church of the Icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow" on the official website of the Kursk and Rila Diocese
• Church of the Icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow" on the website of the Kursk Regional Scientific Library named after N. N. Aseeva