Holy Trinity Cathedral (Nizhny Tagil)

In 1745, the Old Believer Deacon Ryabinin Andrei Ivanovich built on this site a wooden chapel, which burned down four years later. Shortly thereafter, in 1781, Ryabinin built in its place a large stone chapel with cells for novice women, bringing from Moscow several expensive icons, including the Icon of the Assumption of the Mother of God , decorated with colored stones. After the death of Ryabinin in his will, the chapel passed to the Old Believers of the city and became a stronghold of the Nizhny Tagil Holy Trinity Society. In the first half of the XIX century, at the Tagil Old Believers, the chapel performs the function not only of a spiritual institution, but also a place for solving worldly problems.

With the introduction of common faith in the Perm province , its propagandists appeared - orthodox missionaries. In May 1829, an anti-splitting mission was established in Perm . As the Nizhny Tagil mining and metallurgical settlement expanded, the struggle between the administration and the clergy and schismatics intensified. The official clergy tried to force the Old Believers' chapels and houses of prayer into the clergy, but they met with strong resistance from the Old Believers.

In May 1837, Ural was visited by the heir to the royal throne, Alexander Nikolayevich , who, despite very strict prohibitions “ not to ask the heir for anything ,” the Old Believers were able to pass “ A note about the constrained situation of the Old Believer society and the Demidov factories belonging to it ”. The schismatics asked not to seal the chapel, not to convert the Holy Trinity Chapel to the Church of the Divine Religion, to allow self-coming priests and weaken the operation of the Orthodox mission. The petition was considered by chamberlain V.V. Skrypitsyn for dissenters, specially sent to the Urals with the prince. In September 1837, he again came to Nizhny Tagil and announced to the foremen of the Holy Trinity chapel the following: " I inform you of His Majesty's will: it is more convenient to stop the sun from its current and the earth to flinch than to change the word of the king ." He also explained that the royal word was to deny their requests as illegal. The elders may ask the diocesan government for the administration of spiritual demands for old-printed books and ancient customs, but only within the framework of common belief.

The activities of Orthodox missionaries intensified, and many Old Believers accepted unity. Particularly active in this matter was the Tagil peasant Fedor Agatonovich Utkin, who rallied more than 50 families of the Tagil Old Believers around him. On April 4, 1837, they made a decision to take the Old Christian priesthood and asked them to find a worthy priest and help them master the Holy Trinity Chapel. Deacon of the Grado-Shadrinsk Nicholas Church, John Stefanovich Pyryev, became the priest. On May 25, 1837, the supporters of Utkin submit a petition to the Nizhny Tagil Plant Administration for the transfer of a chapel to them, as directed by the chief commander of the Ural mining plants (dated February 20, 1835), which allowed them to build churches and convert them to the unity of the chapel. On February 20, 1840, Nicholas I allowed the Holy Trinity chapel to be handed over to the co-religionists, and on March 30, the transfer itself began with a commission consisting of plant managers D. V. Belov, P. D. Danilov, F. I. Shvetsov , a gendarme lieutenant colonel Zhadovsky, judge Sobolev , the head of the Nizhny Tagil police department, P. F. Lvov, and the priest, I. S. Pyrev, with the witnesses. The police cordoned off the fence of the chapel. Having learned about the transfer of the chapel to the fellow believers, the Old Believers dissenters dispersed the guard and set up to guard their shrine. “ Disorder and disorder began .” The aforementioned and respected resident of Nizhny Tagil F. I. Shvetsov tried to convince the schismatics of the legality of the decision. However, the Old Believers were not appeased and insisted that they did not want to obey and would never allow priest to the chapel. Then Governor Ogarev urgently sends a message to the Special Minister of the Interior of the Russian Empire about what is happening in Tagil , and asks to authorize radical measures to curb the disobedience of the schismatics. When they reported the incident to the emperor, he made a brief and categorical decision: " To clear the rebel chapel, leaving it at the disposal of the priest ."

On May 12, the Perm governor himself personally arrives in Tagil and informs the dissenters that they have declared the monarchy will, but all their convictions are in vain, and they refuse to go outside. May 15 began the storming of the chapel with the use of physical force. They drove fire trucks and began to pour water on the rioters. Most of the people managed to oust the chapel. On the same day, the assault was completed with the capture of the chapel, and on May 18 an Orthodox cross was installed on it.

On December 27, 1841, by the decree of the Holy Synod, the Holy Trinity Chapel was converted into a church in the “ ancient style ” as co-religionists requested, and on June 4, 1842, it was consecrated into a church of the same faith. In the same year, Pyryev received a certificate for the consecration of the place under the altar. At the site of the chapel, construction of a stone church begins. The main Trinity throne consecrated Fr. Nathanael in 1885. The side-altars were also consecrated later: the south - Saint Nicholas the Deliver in 1886 and the north - the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos in 1887. In 1894, all three of the throne because of their disrepair were replaced by new ones. On the bell tower, which was considered one of the tallest in Nizhny Tagil, hung a large bell. Nearby were two two-storey houses: in one there lived a priest and a deacon, in the other there was a parochial school.

In the early 1930s, the Holy Trinity Church was closed. Crosses were removed from the church, the bell was dropped from the bell tower; iconostases, choirs, porch, too, were destroyed. Together with the plaster from the walls, the ceiling and the dome the painting was erased. During the Great Patriotic War, the church building was used as warehouses, locksmith workshops, and later under the autogarage of the Vysokogorsky mine department . In the courtyard in the 1970s, the production of paving stones for paving worked.

In 1991, the temple was transferred to the Yekaterinburg diocese . Proto-archpriest Gennady Vedernikov, with the blessing of the lord Archbishop Melchizedek, sent the priest Father Alexander Khoruzhniy to rebuild the temple. Since 1993, professional artists from Yekaterinburg Mikhail Oborin and Vitaly Ignatiev worked in the temple. They developed the designs of three iconostases, including their construction and decoration. Several festive icons and an altar image of the northern chapel were performed. In the spring of 1993, the first bells were raised to the bell tower, and by the summer of the same year a large bell weighing about 6 tons appeared on the bell tower - a gift from the archbishop of Sverdlovsk and Kurgan Melchizedek. Together, the church was able to recover and a parish appeared in it. The first Divine Liturgy was celebrated at the 1992 Easter Temple. In 1998, the temple was given the status of a bishop's bishop. On September 22-26, 2000, the first-ever visit to the Urals of the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II, took place . The visit to Nizhny Tagil began with a visit by His Holiness the Holy Trinity Bishop's monastery. On March 19, 2012, in connection with the formation of the Nizhny Tagil Diocese , the temple was approved by the Bishop Innokentiy in the status of a cathedral.

The building of the cathedral is a three-headed church typical of the Russian-Byzantine style of architecture with a high bell tower at the entrance, a massive dome in the middle and a small main head-alley over the altar. The main dome of the temple stands on an octagonal base, which rises above the rectangular case, on the dome there is a cupola. The head over the altar stands on the apse adjacent to the main massif. From the west, a four-tiered bell tower rises above the vestibule. The interior of the temple is quite diverse: the corners form double pilasters, window openings are cut round and arched in shape, on the facade of the building there are uses of decorative kokoshniks and platbands with keeled top and false windows of round shape. Previously, the temple was beige, but for the last 15 years it has been painted green with white stripes on the eaves, ledges and decorative elements. Golden domes with golden poppies and golden crosses; the roofs on the roof and the eaves and the canopy above the entrance are dark green.

The temple is located in a sparsely populated urban area among industrial companies and the private sector near Chernoistochinskoy highway , passing a hundred meters east of it. From the north, the territory of the temple is adjacent to trading companies; from the south is the company "Tagilenergo"; from the west is an old quarry. The territory is surrounded by a metal fence with a single exit with a wicket and a gate for car entry. There are two more buildings on the territory of the temple: there is a Sunday (parish) school and library in the building to the left of the entrance to the territory and to the left of the entrance to the temple; the building near the entrance to the territory is occupied by the guard and refectory (dining room).

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