Off-site meetings at the facilities of the 200 Orthodox Churches program were held in the west of the capital by Vladimir Resin, adviser on construction issues of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus'.

Viktor Klimenko, First Deputy Prefect of the Western Administrative District, took part in the tour of the facilities.

The first detour point was the temple under construction in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God in the Solntsevo area. for 300 parishioners is erected in memory of the lost shrine - before the revolution there was a cathedral, which was destroyed in the 30s. Interestingly, these lands belonged to the hero of the Patriotic War of 1812, Prince Meshchersky. But the history of this place goes back to more distant times: when they began to drill a well under water, they found an ancient foundation from the time of Alexander Nevsky.

Currently, the walls of the temple are plastered, facade work is underway, and the plinth is being finished with granite. Finishing work is underway in the clerk's house, laying floor tiles. An iconostasis was made for the temple, the installation of which is planned in July-August, after the installation of floor tiles. Connected to gas and heat. A fence is being erected on the temple grounds. There is also a wooden chapel on the site.

As the curator of the program, Vladimir Resin, said, “this construction site is one of those that must be equaled both in terms of the quality of the work performed and the pace of construction. And it should be noted that here there was a successful combination of the work of the prefecture, council, rector and builders.

The image of the future temple on an individual project was created specifically for this corner of Moscow. The Pskov-Novgorod canons are taken as the basis - the temple is single-domed, with an onion top, rich in decor.

Geographically, here, on the border of Moscow and the region, a good recreational zone has developed in recent years, and the construction of the temple will be another significant impetus for the development of the region. The project for the improvement of the territory near the temple will be aimed at uniting the Vakovsky forest park from the side of the region and the Meshchersky park with the pond of the Moscow village of the same name. As a result, wonderful recreation areas will be created, which will become the center of attraction for Muscovites from the entire district.

From Solntsevo, the Program curators went to Ramenki, on the street of the same name, at its intersection with Michurinsky Prospekt, where the Church of St. Andrei Rublev had already been erected. The parish of the temple was formed in March 1993, that is, more than 20 years ago. In 1995, a small wooden chapel was installed on the territory, and a few years later (in 2001) a wooden church for 100 people was erected.

The construction of the main stone church in honor of St. Andrei Rublev began in 2008, and only in March 2016, at the request of the parish, the object was included in the Program.

The temple is being built according to an individual project, for 900 parishioners. The temple is white stone, with a green roof, a gilded dome, a belfry with 3 small domes. As a basis for this project, the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral of the Andronikov Monastery, which was painted by Andrei Rublev, was taken as a model.

The lower, baptismal church in honor of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos was built according to the design of the architect Mikhail Filippov.

At present, work on the belfry has been fully completed, to which the bells from the wooden church have been transferred. Plastering of the inner walls of the temple is currently underway. Metal structures of decorative vaults in the ground part of the temple are being carried out. The plinth of the building is laid out with granite tiles. We started making the iconostasis. As part of the improvement, an entrance to the temple territory was organized from Michurinsky Prospekt. Part of the work on the improvement of the central site of the territory, where the parking space will be located, has been completed.

The parish house is in the planning stage. For its future construction, two sections were united on the territory, which were previously separated by a road. It was the roadway. The city authorities helped to solve the problem. The road has now been moved. The church has a Sunday school and an active youth movement. There is social service. The parish helps the homeless center by collecting things, conducting talks and pilgrimage trips. Feeds the orphanage. In order to raise funds for the construction, the parish holds various charity events for the residents of the area.

The last detour point was the church under construction for 300 parishioners in honor of St. Spyridon Trimifuntsky on Barclay Street in Fili-Davydkovo. The parish exists since 2007, with the blessing of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Alexy II. The purpose of the parish was, first of all, the construction of a church in honor of St. Spyridon of Trimifuntsky, since at that time there was not a single church of St. Spyridon in Moscow at all (at present, a church in honor of this saint was built as part of the Program in Nagatino).

For several years, the parish tried to agree on a site for the construction of a temple in the Western District, but was refused at various points. Only after the start of the Program was it possible to select and agree on a site on Barclay Street. On June 14, 2012, public hearings were held, at which the construction of a church in honor of St. Spyridon Trimifuntsky near the Bagrationovskaya metro station, between Seslavinskaya and Oleko Dundich streets was approved.

A single-dome church for 300 parishioners in honor of St. Spyridon of Trimifuntsky is being built according to the project of Mosproekt-2 OJSC. In the neo-Russian style, in tune with the style of the temple itself, an iconostasis was made, which is currently being assembled. It is interesting that for the iconostasis there are pre-revolutionary royal doors from one Temple, destroyed under Soviet rule. They were saved and survived to this day, the parish carried out restoration work. Currently, the installation of metal structures for the vaults of the temple is underway. In the parish house, work is underway to finish the basement, as well as the installation of ventilation equipment.

Services are held in a small wooden church located on a construction site. In the Sunday school they not only study the Law of God, but also engage in creativity in art, theater, and choir studios. Master classes on bell ringing are held for students. Interaction with the Institute of Contemporary Art and secondary schools is developing. A society for the hearing impaired is organized at the temple. Prayers and liturgies are held with sign language translation.

A single-domed church with an onion top and rich decor is being built at the intersection of Voskresenskaya Street and Meshchersky Prospekt in the area Solntsevo, surrounded by forest park and ponds .

“The project is individual, created specifically for this corner of Moscow. Old Russian canons are taken as a basis," he said. V. Resin.

This project embodies the latest "know-how" - covering the church dome with smalt in the form of a mosaic, consisting of separate pieces 10 by 10 mm in size. Such a coating, unlike traditional gold leaf, is durable and gives a matte sheen with a sparkle. The cost of such a coating is slightly higher, but it is done for centuries, does not require restoration or repair.

"The temple in the village of Meshchersky is one of those that must be equaled both in terms of the quality of the work performed and the accelerating pace of construction," he noted. V. Resin.

According to him, the builders managed to build the temple complex in just over two years. A dome with a gilded cross has been installed, the finishing of the facades of the building has been completed, with the exception of the granite base, it will be started in the spring.

“The interior decoration of the temple has begun, by the end of June the construction will be completed. The work on the parish house is also almost completed, the interior decoration is underway. The commissioning of the entire complex, including the improvement of the territory, is scheduled for September, and in October-November its Great consecration will take place,” he said. V. Resin.

Last year, the pond and Meshchersky Park were put in order, it remains to improve the territory adjacent to the temple in parallel with the territory of the church itself.

Residents of the district will receive a magnificent natural and recreational ensemble with a pearl of modern Orthodox architecture.

Recall that the program for the construction of Orthodox churches ("Program-200") is deployed in all districts of the capital, except. Its goal is to provide the residents of the city with churches close to home.

The program is funded by donations. To raise funds, a charitable foundation was created to support the construction of churches in the city of Moscow, co-chaired by the mayor of the capital Sergei Sobyanin and Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill.

The program is supervised by an adviser to the mayor, an adviser on the construction of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', a deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation Vladimir Resin- He is the chairman of the working group of the fund.

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On the site of the once blown-up church in the village of Orlovo near Moscow (in #Solntsevo), an amazingly beautiful Temple of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God has grown. It will be illuminated in 2018. Although the construction has not yet been completed, you can already see what the temple will be like - it resembles the old Novgorod and Pskov churches. And a little history

At the Oryol church there has always been a strong church community, which in different years was served by different priests, but the last of them had a special share - martyrdom in the name of Christ at the infamous Butovo training ground.

Exactly a quarter of a century, Father Nikolai Lavrov was the rector of the temple in Orlov, of which the last 18 years fell on the time of godlessness and repression. After the October Revolution, the entire power of the state machine was directed to the destruction of the Church. But even in such conditions, risking their lives daily, the priests continued their ministry.

In 1935, the Kuntsevsky District Council decided to convert the building of the Orel Church into a school. They demanded the keys to the church from Father Nikolai. Instead, the pastor gathered believers from the surrounding villages and wrote a collective petition on their behalf asking them to suspend the decision to close the church.

The attempt to save him had the most tragic consequences for Father Nikolai. Investigators accused him of leading a "counter-revolutionary kulak group". By order of the troika at the UNKVD of Moscow and the Moscow Region, Nikolai Yakovlevich Lavrov was sentenced to death.

After the church was closed, the local authorities ordered the church utensils and icons to be transferred to neighboring churches, but the parishioners acted differently: they took apart the shrines dear to them in the hope of keeping them until better times. The Committee of the Poor Peasant regarded these actions as sabotage and ordered the “accomplices of the counter-revolution” to return the church property to the last icon, under pain of execution, so that later, in front of the whole village, they could set up a demonstrative fire.

It seemed that on that terrible day everything burned to the ground, and there was no longer any hope of finding at least some genuine thing from the Oryol temple. But a miracle happened. And eight years ago, when examining the foundation of the ruined church, a wall cross darkened with time was found, as if specially waiting in the wings.

For a long time, the village of Orlovo, together with the surrounding villages, became part of Moscow, but people have not forgotten their roots, including spiritual ones. Among the local residents there were ascetics who created a church community and set out to revive the destroyed temple.
The first prayers, as long as the weather allowed, were held in the open air - on the foundations of the old church. And then, under the 200 Temples Program, a new church was erected. Due to the fact that the financing of the construction did not stop for a single day, the temple complex was built in record time. Local residents, wishing to contribute to the decoration of the temple, bring home icons and church utensils to the priest, and one of the old parishioners volunteered to finance the purchase of bells for the belfry. (Reference is given according to the materials of the Moscow Patriarchate).

The walls of the single-dome building of the temple under construction were erected in a year. According to State Duma deputy and chief curator of the 200 Temples program Vladimir Resin, the church will also be heated from the beginning of the heating season. This will allow the arrangement to be carried out without delay. The builders will treat the dome with a special composition - smalt. In the house for the ministers of the church in Solntsevo, the interior decoration is already underway.

The individual project of the Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God will harmoniously fit into the urban environment. Its appearance is reminiscent of the Novgorod and Pskov traditions of architecture. The rich painting of the walls and interior decoration will become the center of attraction for the views of the residents of the area. The adjacent territory, which has yet to be landscaped, will unite the Meshchersky and Bakovskiy parks with the reservoir of the Meshchersky village. It will turn into a recreation area. As Vladimir Iosifovich noted, the speed and quality of construction is an example for other projects.

Temple address: Moscow, Western AD, Solntsevo, Staroorlovskaya st., vl. 106
Temple phone numbers: (968) 590-61-92, (916) 416-13-78
Travel by public transport: from Yugo-Zapadnaya metro station - by bus No. 707 or bus (route taxi) No. 343m to the stop "Rodnikovaya street, 14"; from Peredelkino station - by bus (route taxi) No. 343m to the stop "Rodnikovaya street, 14"; from Solnechnaya station - by bus number 734 to the stop "Rodnikovaya street, 14".

Story: Located in the residential area of ​​the modern Solntsevo district of the Western Administrative District of Moscow, the village of Orlovo with villages has been known since the 16th century. From time immemorial, these lands belonged to the Moscow Cathedral Chudov Monastery, which had here at the end of the 16th century. his monastery yard.

The first wooden temple in Orlov was dedicated to the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos, which is why this place was called Pokrovsky churchyard. During the Polish-Lithuanian hard times, this church was destroyed and restored only in the second half of the 17th century with a new name in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God with a chapel of St. Nicholas. This wooden church was moved in 1698 from the estate of the boyars Streshnevs near Moscow. Uzkovo (Uskovo, Narrow). After the reform of the confiscation of church property in the reign of Catherine the Great in the 1760s. With. Orlovo village. Rumyantsevo became possessions inhabited by state peasants.

From the second half of the 18th century, a wooden single-altar Nikolskaya church existed in Orlovo. In 1813, a stone church of little parish in the name of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the village was assigned to the St. Nicholas Church in the village of Orlovo. Govorovo, built in 1734 in the old estate of the princes Trubetskoy. Thus, s. Speaking, der. Sukovo, as well as the ancient village of Kartmazovo on Setun, where from the 17th century to the end of the 18th century. there was a wooden temple of the Assumption of the Mother of God.

Stone temple in Orlovo was erected at the expense of the manufacturer Epaneshnikov in 1861 instead of the wooden church that burned down in December 1851. Initially, it had two chapels in honor of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos and St. Nicholas. Later, in 1873, a refectory part was added to it, in which a third chapel was arranged, dedicated to the Don Icon of the Mother of God.

Since 1910, with the blessing of His Eminence Vladimir, Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, Rector of the Church of St. Nicholas in the village. Orlov of the 2nd deanery district of the Moscow district was appointed priest Nikolai Yakovlevich Lavrov.

On July 31, 1910, Father Nikolai received a new assignment to the St. Nicholas Church in the village. Orlovo, located closer to Moscow than with. Voskresenskoye-Savvino (Peredelkino platform (17th verst) of the Moscow-Kiev-Voronezh railway). Here, the pedagogical abilities of Father Nikolai Lavrov, who became a teacher of the law in two parochial and one zemstvo parish schools, were fully manifested. The first parochial school was opened in Orlov. Peasant boys and girls of different ages studied here. At the expense of the princes Turkestanovs, owners of the estate in Govorovo, another parochial school was founded, which received support from Vladyka Trifon (Turkestanov), Bishop of Dmitrovsky. At the expense of the Moscow district zemstvo, there was a zemstvo school in the village. Rumyantsevo.

The clergy of the Nikolsky church consisted of the rector, priest Nikolai Lavrov, a deacon for the vacancy of a psalmist Vasily Voznesensky (1910), a prosvir Anna Ivanovna Rozhdestvenskaya. The position of church warden was corrected by Mikhail Vasilyevich Pankov for many years. A zealous, deeply religious and decent person, he always helped the priest in running the church economy, he loved and decorated the parish church of St. Nicholas.

On the eve of the revolutionary events of 1917, the Nikolsky parish consisted of 224 households with a population of more than 1,000 people. In the village of Orlovo there were 86 households.

The October Revolution and the first decrees of the new "godless" government disrupted the peaceful course of life in Orlov. According to the new territorial division, the parish villages went to the Kozlovsky volost of the Moscow district, and later entered the Kuntsevsky district of the Moscow region. The authorities closed parochial schools and forbade the teaching of the Law of God to children, confiscated church land, deprived clergy and church activists of civil rights, turning them into “disenfranchised”.

The church was deprived of property rights, and the St. Nicholas Church with property was transferred to the use of the Orthodox community of believers “under an agreement” with the local Soviet of Deputies and the church department of the volost police. In 1921, Father Nikolai was "assigned" to the rear militia, and for evading community service he was briefly arrested, but soon, at the request of the parishioners, he was released.

In July 1935, the Kuntsevsky District Council at its meeting approved the "petition" of the inhabitants of the village. Orlov and members of the collective farm "Leninets" about the closure of the St. Nicholas Church with the conversion of the building into a local secondary school. On September 23, this resolution is approved by the Moscow Regional Executive Committee.

On October 6, 1935, the chairman of the Orlovsky village council, Strekalov, announced to the members of the parish "twenty" the decision of the Moscow Regional Executive Committee to close the church and demanded the keys to the church building. Father Nikolai Lavrov gathered the faithful and prepared a return petition from the parishioners to the secretariat of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of the USSR, with a request to suspend the decision to close the church.

The decision of the Moscow Regional Executive Committee, after a formal investigation and the “conclusion” of a specialist from the Commission for Religious Affairs under the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, was approved by the decision of the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of February 20, 1936. The Kuntsevsky District Executive Committee approved the estimate and the project for the reconstruction of the Nikolskaya Church in Orlovo into a school and invited believers to transfer church utensils and icons to the nearby churches of the villages of Kuntsevsky district Preobrazhensky in Lukino-Peredelkino and Blagoveshchensky in Fedosino.

On September 23, 1937, Father Nikolai was arrested by the Kuntsevo regional department of the NKVD in Salaryevo and taken to a local prison. From here, the shepherd conveyed the last news to his relatives through a note to his daughter Sophia: “Farewell forever. Your daddy."

Nikolai's father was accused of being an active "Tikhonite" who led anti-Soviet agitation against the events held by the Soviet government. Investigators attributed to him the leadership of "a counter-revolutionary kulak group with active counter-revolutionary subversive activities."

On October 17, 1937, by order of the troika at the UNKVD for Moscow and the Moscow Region, Archpriest Nikolai Yakovlevich Lavrov was sentenced to death by firing squad and on October 21, among other sufferers for his faith, found a martyr's death at the Butovo training ground. Together with Father Nikolai in Butovo, members of the church council of St. Nicholas Church in Orlov, Ivan Arefyevich Gorkov and Ivan Prokofievich Dubatov, were shot.

At present (as of 2012), by the grace of God, the construction of a new church is nearing completion. The collection of funds for liturgical utensils began. Prior to the start of the divine services, it is necessary to purchase: an altar, an altar, a gospel, an iconostasis, a menorah, a chandelier, lecterns, candlesticks, etc.

The church has a Sunday school.

Classes are held on Sundays after Liturgy.

Services: are carried out in the premises of the Polyclinic of Rehabilitation Treatment No. 4.

On the site of the blown up shrine in the village of Orlovo near Moscow, a five-domed church of amazing beauty has grown.

Due to the fact that the financing of the construction did not stop even for a single day, the temple complex was built in record time.

Golgotha ​​of Father Nicholas

At the Oryol church there has always been a strong church community, which in different years was served by different priests, but the last of them had a special share - martyrdom in the name of Christ at the infamous Butovo training ground.

Exactly a quarter of a century, Father Nikolai Lavrov was the rector of the temple in Orlov, of which the last 18 years fell on the time of godlessness and repression. After the October Revolution, the entire power of the state machine was directed to the destruction of the Church. But even in such conditions, risking their lives daily, the priests continued their ministry.

In 1935, the Kuntsevsky District Council decided to convert the building of the Orel Church into a school. They demanded the keys to the church from Father Nikolai. Instead, the pastor gathered believers from the surrounding villages and wrote a collective petition on their behalf asking them to suspend the decision to close the church.

The attempt to save God's house had the most tragic consequences for Father Nikolai. Investigators accused him of leading a "counter-revolutionary kulak group". By order of the troika at the UNKVD of Moscow and the Moscow Region, Nikolai Yakovlevich Lavrov was sentenced to death.

Finding the Cross

After the church was closed, the local authorities ordered the church utensils and icons to be transferred to neighboring churches, but the parishioners acted differently: they took apart the shrines dear to them in the hope of keeping them until better times. The Committee of the Poor Peasant regarded these actions as sabotage and ordered the “accomplices of the counter-revolution” to return the church property to the last icon, under pain of execution, so that later, in front of the whole village, they could set up a demonstrative fire.

It seemed that on that terrible day everything burned to the ground, and there was no longer any hope of finding at least some genuine thing from the Oryol temple. But a miracle happened. Eight years ago, while examining the foundation of the ruined church, a wall cross darkened with time was found, as if specially waiting in the wings.

Three temples - one priest

For a long time, the village of Orlovo, together with the surrounding villages, became part of Moscow, and their inhabitants became Muscovites. Generations have changed, but people have not forgotten their roots, including spiritual ones. Among the local residents there were ascetics who created a church community and set out to revive the destroyed temple.

Mikhail Kolupanov was born in 1977 in Moscow.
In 2000 he graduated from the St. Tikhon Theological Institute. In 2001 he was ordained a priest. From 2001 to 2004 he served in the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin on the Krylatsky Hills. Since 2004 - Rector of the Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God in Orlov

The community is there, but the church and the priest are not. Is it right? And in 2004, the young priest Mikhail Kolupanov became the shepherd of the "group of church activists." The first prayers, as long as the weather allowed, were held in the open air - on the foundations of the old church. And then the question of temporary premises arose sharply. Management of the rehabilitation treatment clinic on the street. Rodnikova in Solntsevo kindly provided father Mikhail ... with her assembly hall. On the stage, the priest arranged an altar, placed candlesticks in front of the altar, and hung icons on the walls.

- Local grandmothers at first reacted to our temple with distrust. They thought that we were some kind of sectarians, - father Mikhail smiles, - and now there are up to 60 communicants at the Sunday service. In addition, the church is attended by people with disabilities who come to the clinic for treatment. They are looking for support, consolation and, of course, God's help here.

The complex in Solntsevo is a generous gift to Muscovites from the Mosstroymekhanizatsiya-5 company. Its general director Sergey Kachalin considers temple building a contribution to the future
states.

Words of consolation are also expected from the priest in another hospital church - at the Scientific and Practical Center for Medical Care for Children with Craniofacial Malformations and Congenital Diseases of the Nervous System.

The attached temple of the Holy Trinity is a small room in the building of the Scientific and Practical Center, and the service is performed here once a week.

But on major church holidays, the priest tries to serve in all “his” churches.

With common prayers, the Temple in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God on Staroorlovskaya Street, designed for 500 people, together with the house of the clergy, was built among the very first under the 200 Temples Program. And although the construction has not yet been completed, there is already an idea of ​​​​how the temple complex of the 21st century should look like. On the one hand, its architecture does not go beyond traditional church architecture, and on the other hand, modern technologies are used wherever it is appropriate.

The clergy house has a room for mother and child. Here you can feed and change babies. And the Sunday school of the parish, which has been huddled in the hospital library for many years, will move into spacious classrooms.

Due to the fact that the financing of the construction did not stop for a single day, the temple complex was built in record time. Sergey Kachalin, General Director of the Mosstroymekhanizatsiya-5 organization, became not only the curator of the facility, but also its sole sponsor. For which he bows low from the entire parish of the temple and from the residents of the microdistrict, who are now and then interested in when the new church will open.

“Only the interior decoration of the church remains,” says the rector, “but in order to start divine services as soon as possible, we decided to install a temporary iconostasis with reprinted photocopies of the icons.

Local residents, wishing to contribute to the decoration of the temple, bring home icons and church utensils to the priest, and one of the old parishioners volunteered to finance the purchase of bells for the belfry.

Construction:

Investor and general contractor: Mosstroymekhanizatsiya-5

Project: State Unitary Enterprise "MNIITEP"

Technical customer: SUE "URiRUO"

Address: st. Staroorlovskaya, 106

Rector: Priest Mikhail Kolupanov