The Church of the Nativity of Christ is a single-throne wooden church with a stone bell tower, the temple of the Cheboksary diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church , located in the village of Khirkasy in the Cheboksary district of Chuvashia . Built in 1900 .
| Church | |
| Church of the Nativity | |
|---|---|
 Church of the Nativity, April 2016 | |
| A country |  Russia |
| Rural settlement | Khirkasy |
| Denomination | Orthodoxy |
| Diocese | Cheboksary Diocese |
| Reverence | II Deanery District [1] |
| Type of building | Church |
| Established | 1899 year |
| Building | 1899 - 1900 years |
| Status | acting |
| condition | Parish church |
| Site | hyrkasy.cerkov.ru |
Content
History
The temple was built at the expense of merchants Gaidov V.A. and Chudakov:
- the merchant of the Koptarsky sawmill, Gaidov Vasily Afanasyevich donated lumber for the construction of the temple of the village of Khirkasy;
- the merchant Chudakov contributed significantly to the construction of the temple of the village of Khirkasy [2] .
John of Kronstadt in 1899 , while traveling in the church of the village of Ilyinka , contributed 100 gold rubles to the construction of the church of the village of Khirkasy [3] [2] .
On August 2, 1900, the church was consecrated by the Archbishop of Kazan Arseny in the service of 10 clergymen [4] .
In 1931 the church was closed [5] .
After the closure, the church was converted into a collective farm youth school, then into an incomplete secondary school, in 1964, after the construction of the secondary school, it was used as a warehouse and a carpentry workshop.
On June 3, 1990, at the request of numerous believers from nearby villages, the church was transferred to the parish of the Orthodox Church and reconstructed [4] .
Architecture
The temple is a traditional one-domed octagon on a quadruple , to which from the north-east there is a five - sided apse crowned with a cupola , and from the south-west a stone bell tower is attached.
Literature
- Braslavsky L. Yu. Current temples, chapels, monasteries of the Cheboksary and Chuvash diocese: album book. - Cheboksary: Chuvash. Prince Publishing House, 2010 .-- 271 p. - ISBN 978-5-7670-1736-2
Notes
- ↑ Official site of the II Deanery of the Cheboksary Diocese of the Chuvash Metropolis
- ↑ 1 2 Church of the Nativity of Christ p. Khirkasy // Religious organization "Cheboksary-Chuvash Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)"
- ↑ Proceedings of the Kazan Diocese, 1901, No. 47, p. 1355-1357
- ↑ 1 2 Church of the Nativity of Christ v. Khirkasy // Network of Orthodox sites Prihod.ru
- ↑ Braslavsky L. Yu. Current temples, chapels, monasteries of the Cheboksary and Chuvash diocese: album book. - Cheboksary: Chuvash. Prince Publishing House, 2010 .-- 271 p.