All Saints Church (Tyumen)

The first wooden church on the site of the modern church of All Saints appeared in 1779. It was located in an area built up with wooden houses, a cemetery adjoined to it, and was built by the blessed letter of the Bishop of Tobolsk and Siberian Varlaam (Petrov) dated October 12, 1779, and the city authorities pledged to decorate the church with holy images and an iconostasis , and also to supply church utensils.

With the passage of time, the church deteriorated dramatically, and on April 30, 1806, the rector of the church, Archpriest Sozon Kurtukhov, petitioned the City Duma for funds for its repairs. The Tyumen City Council decided to pay for repairs at the expense of the city’s treasury (100 rubles) and the collection of three and a half kopecks from each male resident.

In the place of the wooden church in 1833, a stone church was laid, the initiator of which was built by titular adviser Dmitry Voinov, and the project of the temple was developed by the architect Paramon. His design was unique: the round building was covered with a vaulted dome . It is a rotunda , and four four-column porticoes with a flat dome are attached to it from four sides. The entire building enclosed a circular cornice with a spherical gilded cupola and a wooden cross studded with tin. The interior of the church was created by the son of Dmitry Voinov by collegiate adviser Matvey Voinov. Built the temple was consecrated in 1838.

In 1839, the church was assigned to the Tyumen Pokrovskaya (Ilinskaya) church. At the church only the elder was working, looking after her. The services in the church were rarely held - at the Week of All Saints and at the request of relatives buried in the cemetery, then on Sundays and public holidays, and the cemetery near the church was closed in 1884. The cemetery was left unattended for a long time, and was looted and vandalized until 1908, when order was established here.

In 1923, the church was registered as a religious community , 12 kg of silver utensils and two bells weighing 96 kg were confiscated from it. In 1930, they wanted to close the church following the example of other religious institutions of Tyumen, and in the building - to place a school, but this did not happen. The Church of All Saints remained the only active church in the city. A. Boyarintsev was the church headman, and Archpriest N. Protopopov, who was repressed in 1931 and died in prison in May 1942, was the head of the church council. In 1933–1937, the community of the All Saints Church was headed by M. Ya. Khanzhin, the priest was Dioskor Tatishchev. They were both repressed and shot.

The temple was temporarily closed from 1940 to October 1941, and during this period a cross was removed from it. However, in 1942, the authorities allowed to conduct worship in the temple, and at the factory "Mechanic" made a new cross, which was installed on the feast of the Baptism of the Lord . In the temple set iconostasis . The priest Alexander Sychugov became the organizer of the restoration of the temple. The temple held a collection of funds, which were then sent to the front, to update the temple, for a common candle and for the formation of the Znamensky Cathedral . Until 1979, church services were held only on holidays and weekends, and in the 1980s, the whole week, except Mondays and Tuesdays. At the same time, the church was disfigured by replacing the wooden “annex” with a stone one, where the baptismal church was located (in 2002 the department for the protection of cultural monuments under the administration of the Tyumen region issued an official conclusion that the attached part corresponds to the style of temple classicism). In 1988, the church was renovated.

In 1997, a children's Sunday school and a library began to operate in the temple. In 2004, the bell tower was built.

Since 1997, the abbot of the temple is Andrei Sbitnev.

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• Historical review of the All Saints (Cemetery) church of the city of Tyumen (Rus.) . Siberian Orthodox Newspaper. Circulation date October 29, 2012. Archived December 19, 2012.