Old Believer Church on Belarusian. BC White Square. Belorusskaya District

BC White Square - I am incredibly attracted to this place. Here, it’s as if you find yourself abroad for a few minutes. The spirit of the West really lives here. In the White Square Business Center, office blocks of various sizes are rented by such well-known companies as: PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte & Touche, McKinsey, Microsoft, Swedbank. Let's look:

Church on Belorusskaya

The triumphal gate stood for a little over a hundred years. But in 1936, the area near the Belorussky Station was completely redesigned and the arch was dismantled. According to the plan for the reconstruction of the square, it was assumed that it would be reassembled there, but for some reason the plan was not implemented in this part. In disassembled (and, naturally, stolen) form, it lay somewhere in warehouses for 30 years. Only in 1966–1968. it was finally decided to restore it, but in a different place, on Kutuzovsky Prospekt, next to the panorama museum of the Battle of Borodino. We had to work hard: at the Mytishchi plant, 12 columns were cast from the only surviving column.
The Belorussky Station itself is also interesting from an architectural point of view. Its first building was built in 1871. During Soviet times, it bore the name “Gateway to Europe.” From here trains went to Berlin and Paris.
In the coming years, the large-scale area will undergo changes again. It is expected that there will be a small park area and an impressive underground shopping complex.
If you leave the metro station following the signs to Lesnaya Street, you will see a very beautiful strict Old Believer church of the early twentieth century. With a picturesque ornament unusual for Moscow churches.

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PS yes, I did not expect such trolls in the comments, to be honest, all this verbiage does not offend me at all, but only speaks of your one-sidedness. I didn’t say good or bad, I just showed the pictures and this caused so much, excuse me, crap and whining - “how it was good before, a hundred years ago.” You can gather a squad and go blow up this center, since it is so hated by everyone, only the stupid asshole will stop writing. This mediocre swearing and other things won’t change anything, but the word wankers rejoice and hit the buttons harder for them to enjoy all this. If the word “West” is like hell to you, then go to other cities and live there, create your own movement, look for like-minded people, like eco-villages in Siberia. Everything that is written here is directly spurred on by Doctrine 77, it’s very similar. I wish you good luck in nostalgia for Moscow, which no longer exists, live in the present, and not in pseudo-pride for the city, which, I’m sure for the majority, is not your home and never was, but it’s fashionable now to crap and ridicule everything, as can be seen from the answers! It’s fashionable to be rude and write complete nonsense, just so that someone will notice and respond with the same nonsense. I like this center, although it does not fit into the surrounding buildings, but in itself it is very organic. Someone talked about “clinging” to the church - this is true, but the architecture is specially thought out in such a way that you can see it from any corner and not forget that you are in Russia. Good luck.

Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker at Tverskaya Zastava (Old Believer) - built on the site of a wooden chapel. Construction of the temple began in 1914 and continued until 1921. On March 16, 1914, the last service was held in the old chapel with the removal of icons and utensils. During construction, the author of the project, architect I.G. Kondratenko, was removed from business affairs, and supervision of construction was entrusted to his colleague, A.M. Gurdzhienko. By the time of the October Revolution, the temple building was almost finished, and the bells were even raised to the bell tower. However, the finishing work took so long that the main altar of the temple (St. Nicholas the Wonderworker) was consecrated in 1921, which is a unique case for those years. A chapel was consecrated in the bell tower in honor of Elijah the Prophet. Life in the temple lasted only 14 years. In 1935 it was closed.

In the 1940s The temple housed an air defense warehouse. Later it housed the workshop of the sculptor S.M. Orlova. It was here that he worked on the monument to Yuri Dolgoruky. Then the workshop of the All-Union Art and Production Plant named after. E.V. Vuchetich.

In 1993, the temple was transferred to the Old Believer Metropolis. The first prayer service in the chapel of Elijah the Prophet took place on August 2, 1995. The largest bookstore in Moscow selling Old Believer literature is located in the church (opened in 1993).

The Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker at the Tverskaya Zastava is an Old Believer temple; built on the site of a wooden chapel on Tverskaya Zastava Square.

Construction of the temple began in 1914, consecrated in 1921. It is an architectural monument. The first design of the temple was carried out by I. G. Kondratenko (1856-1916) in 1908 by order of the Old Believer merchant I. K. Rakhmanov, who owned a plot on the spit of Butyrsky Val and Lesnaya Street in the style of white-stone Vladimir architecture. For Kondratenko, who built dozens of apartment buildings, this was his first project in temple construction. The project was then approved by the city government, but construction was postponed for unknown reasons. Six years later, the community called on another architect - A. M. Gurzhienko (1872 - after 1932), who completed a completely different project. For Gurzhienko, a specialist in road work and reconstruction of old buildings, this was also the first temple project.

Probably, by the time Gurzhienko was called, the zero cycle had already been completed, since the external outlines of the building exactly coincide with Kondratenko’s design. But the temple itself is made in the style of early Novgorod architecture, approaching the historical Church of the Savior on Nereditsa, while inside it is pillarless (Kondratenko’s has six pillars). The temple's tented bell tower also imitates Novgorod belfries. Construction during the First World War was financed by P.V. Ivanov, A.E. Rusakov and others. At that time, near the Tverskaya Zastava there were two more large churches in the Russian style: the Cathedral of St. Alexander Nevsky (architect A. N. Pomerantsev, 1915) on Miusskaya Square and the Holy Cross Church at the Yamsky schools (1886). Both were destroyed.

Through the efforts of the community, the temple was completed and consecrated in 1921. Life in the temple lasted only 20 years. In 1941, it was closed by the Soviet authorities. At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the temple housed a warehouse for local air defense. Later, it housed the workshop of the sculptor S. M. Orlov. It was here that he worked on the monument to Yuri Dolgoruky. Then the workshop of the All-Union Art and Production Plant named after. E. V. Vuchetich.

In 1993, the temple was returned to the Russian Orthodox Old Believer Church. The first prayer service in the chapel of Elijah the Prophet took place on August 2, 1995. There is an Old Believer bookstore at the temple.

http://tver-msk.ru/

In the mid-19th century, a community of Old Believers was organized near the Tverskaya Zastava on land that belonged to the famous merchants Rakhmanovs. In her possession there were two churches: a wooden chapel and a house prayer room. In 1914, a decision was made to build a new Old Believer church at the Tverskaya outpost. Construction of the temple began in 1914 and continued until 1921. On March 16, 1914, the last service took place in the old chapel with the removal of icons and utensils. On June 29, Archbishop John of Moscow blessed the construction.

Yesterday I was looking through my friend’s feed, and I accidentally came across a series of posts by Mikhail Pankratov about the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker at Tverskaya Zastava, which is in the area of Belorusskaya metro station, or Tverskaya Zastava, as this place was called before. I never thought, passing by, that this temple was an Old Believer one, with a very interesting history. This interested me, and so, today I attended the service, which is held in the temple twice a week, looked around the temple, and learned a lot about the temple and the Old Believers. I think that you will also be interested.

1. Briefly about the Old Believers. The church reform undertaken in the 1650s - 1660s by Patriarch Nikon and Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, the purpose of which was the unification of the liturgical rites of the Russian Church with the Greek Church, caused a split in the Russian Church. Until April 17, 1905, adherents of the Old Believers in the Russian Empire were officially called “schismatics” and were persecuted by church and secular authorities. In the 20th century, the position of the Moscow Patriarchate (ROC) on the Old Believer issue softened significantly, but the Old Believers, as before, consider only themselves to be fully Orthodox Christians, qualifying the ROC of the Moscow Patriarchate as heterodox. Old Believers consider New Believers to be heretics, and in order to be accepted into prayer communion, those who convert to the Old Believers must be baptized anew.

"Nikita Pustosvyat. Dispute about faith." (Vasily Perov, 1880-1881). An illustration of a historical event of the 17th century - the so-called “debate about faith,” which took place on June 5, 1682 in the Faceted Chamber of the Moscow Kremlin in the presence of Princess Sophia.

2. The Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker was founded in 1914 on the site of a wooden chapel, erected after the Highest Decree “On strengthening the principles of religious tolerance,” which, among other things, abolished legislative restrictions on schismatics. The decree gave the Old Believers the opportunity to openly organize religious processions, ring bells, and organize communities. The consecration of the foundation stone of the Old Believer Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker at the Tverskaya Zastava was carried out by Archbishop John (Kartushin) of Moscow, and took place on June 29, 1914. It is surprising that the temple itself was consecrated after the October Revolution, in 1921. They say that this became possible due to the high position of a relative of one of the parishioners. Interior decoration was carried out until 1926.

3. The first design of the temple was carried out by I. G. Kondratenko (1856-1916) in 1908 by order of the Old Believer merchant I. K. Rakhmanov, who owned a site on the spit of Butyrsky Val and Lesnaya Street in the style of white-stone Vladimir architecture. For Kondratenko, who built dozens of apartment buildings, this was his first project in temple construction. The project was then approved by the city government, but construction was postponed for unknown reasons. Six years later, the community called on another architect - A. M. Gurzhienko, who completed a completely different project. Probably, by the time Gurzhienko was called, the zero cycle had already been completed, since the external outlines of the building exactly coincide with Kondratenko’s design. But the temple itself is made in the style of early Novgorod architecture, approaching the historical Church of the Savior on Nereditsa, while inside it is pillarless (Kondratenko’s has six pillars). The temple's tented bell tower also imitates Novgorod belfries. Construction during the First World War was financed by P.V. Ivanov, A.E. Rusakov and others.

Photo from pastvu.com

4. The policy of the Soviet government towards the Old Believers changed dramatically at the end of the 1920s, when, during the collectivization of agriculture carried out in the USSR, a campaign was launched to “eliminate the kulaks as a class.” The majority of the Old Believer peasant economy was prosperous, and this gave N.K. Krupskaya grounds to say that “the fight against the kulaks is at the same time a fight against the Old Believers.” As a result of mass repressions against Old Believers in the 1930s, all monasteries and churches were closed, and the vast majority of clergy were arrested. When churches and monasteries were closed, icons, utensils, bells, vestments, and books were completely confiscated, and many libraries and archives were destroyed. In the mid-20s, part of the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker at Tverskaya Zastava was taken away from the Old Believers, and in 1941 the church was finally closed. In 1947, the domes were cut off, but the temple in the very center of Moscow survived. At different times there were: an air defense warehouse, a workshop of the sculptor S. M. Orlov (it was here that he worked on the monument to Yuri Dolgoruky), a workshop of the All-Union Art and Production Plant named after. E. V. Vuchetich.

Photo from pastvu.com

5. In 1993, the temple was transferred to the Russian Orthodox Old Believer Church. Over the course of 2 years, restoration work was carried out, and on August 2, 1995, the first prayer service took place in the chapel of Elijah the Prophet. There is an Old Believer bookstore at the temple. The rector of the temple is Priest Alexey Lopatin. Deacon - Vasily Tryfan. The chairman of the community is Alexander Vasilyevich Antonov. In the 2000s, the historical buildings next to the temple were destroyed and their place was taken by multi-story buildings of new architecture.

6. Of course, my wife and I went inside the temple. During the service it was not crowded, only Old Believers can enter the temple, New Believers can watch the service, listen to the chants, and light candles in the St. Nicholas narthex. The territory is divided into women's and men's. Many were with children. Girls and women are dressed in traditional Russian clothes, their heads are covered with scarves. Photography can only be done with the approval of the rector of the temple, but he was not there today.

7. Interested? On Saturday the service runs from 16:00 to 21:00, on Sunday from 7:30 to 12:00. The rest of the time the temple is closed and it is impossible to get inside. On holidays, there is a procession of the cross, which takes place clockwise, and not against it, as in canonical (new rite) Orthodox churches.

You can watch all the latest things on my website.

Well, what about others! Due to the loss of all my collections of our St. Nicholas Church, in common parlance - “in Belarusian”, I will begin to re-post old and not so old photographs. I'll try to give some explanations.

First, a little information: The Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker at Tverskaya Zastava, built on the site of a wooden chapel on Tverskaya Zastava Square. Construction of the temple began in 1914.
The first design of the temple was completed by I. G. Kondratenko (1856-1916) 1908, commissioned by the Old Believer merchant I. K. Rakhmanov, who owned a plot on the Butyrsky Val spit of Lesnaya Street in the style of white-stone Vladimir architecture. For Kondratenko, who built dozens of apartment buildings, this was his first project in temple construction. The project was then approved by the city government, but construction was postponed for unknown reasons. Six years later, the community called on another architect A. M. Gurzhienko, who completed a completely different project. For Gurzhienko, a specialist in road work and reconstruction of old buildings, this was also the first temple project.

Through the efforts of the community, the temple was consecrated in 1920. In the 30s, the Old Believer community was “densified”... there were communal apartments all over the country, and so they decided. The basement was given over to the 7th Day Adventists, where Protestant services were held. Life in the temple lasted only 20 years. Before the Second World War in 1940. was closed, the temple housed a warehouse for the Local Air Defense. Later it housed the workshop of the sculptor S. M. Orlov. It was here that he worked on the monument to Yuri Dolgoruky. Then the workshop of the All-Union Art and Production Plant named after E. was located here. V. Vuchetich.
In 1993, the temple was transferred to the Russian Orthodox Old Believer Church. The first prayer service at the chapel of Elijah the Prophet took place on August 2, 1995. There is an Old Believer bookstore at the temple. The rector of the temple is Fr. Alexy Lopatin.

1916 (probably the oldest photo)

1917."L. G. Kornilov went to Mogilev through Moscow, where the State Meeting was being held in those days. On August 13, on the second day of the meeting, General Kornilov was greeted at the Alexander Station. The arrival of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief was solemnly arranged. He lined up on the platform with an unfurled banner and a choir of music, a guard of honor from the Alexander Military School. On its left flank stood a team of female cadets. Next were deputations of the Union of Army and Navy Officers, the Union of St. George Cavaliers, the Union of Cossack Troops, the Union of Soldiers Who Escaped from Captivity, the 6th School of Ensigns, women's battalion of death. Among those who greeted were the ataman of the Don Army Kaledin, generals, the mayor, members of the State Duma, the commissar of the Provisional Government in Moscow. A review of cadets of the accelerated courses of the Alekseevsky School was arranged."

Magazine "Prozhektor" No. 4 for 1923.
Meeting by the Moscow proletariat of 23 communists, led by comrade, released by the Soviet government from Polish prisons. Dombalem.

1928 Newsreel of Tverskaya Zastava.

Tverskaya Zastava. View from the roof of house No. 12 on Leningradskoye Shosse, 1930

Guard house near the Belorussky train station, 1931

Address: Russia, Moscow, Butyrsky Val, 8
Directions: m. "Belorusskaya"
Architect: I.G. Kondratenko (project), A.M. Gurdzhienko (work management)
Architectural styles:Modern, Neo-Russian style
Year of construction: Between 1914 and 1921.
Church. Valid.

Thrones: Nicholas the Wonderworker, Elijah the Prophet
Belokrinitsky consent
Coordinates:55.77775, 37.5857
Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker at the Tverskaya Zastava (Old Believer) - built on the site of the wooden chapel of the Rakhmanovs. Construction of the temple began in 1914 and continued until 1921. On March 16, 1914, the last service took place in the old chapel with the removal of icons and utensils. During construction, the author of the project, architect I.G. Kondratenko, was removed from business affairs, and supervision of construction was entrusted to his colleague, A.M. Gurdzhienko. Funds for construction were allocated by the largest representatives of the Moscow commercial and industrial world: P. V. Ivanov, A. E. Rusakov and others. By the time of the October Revolution, the temple building was almost finished, and the bells were even raised to the bell tower. However, the finishing work took so long that the main altar of the temple (St. Nicholas the Wonderworker) was consecrated in 1921, which is a unique case for those years. A chapel was consecrated in the bell tower in honor of Elijah the Prophet. Life in the temple lasted only 14 years. In 1935 it was closed.
In the 1940s, the temple housed an air defense warehouse. Later it housed the workshop of the sculptor S.M. Orlova. It was here that he worked on the monument to Yuri Dolgoruky. Then the workshop of the All-Union Art and Production Plant named after. E.V. Vuchetich.
In 1993, the temple was transferred to the Old Believer Metropolis. The first prayer service in the chapel of Elijah the Prophet took place on August 2, 1995. The largest bookstore in Moscow selling Old Believer literature is located in the church (opened in 1993).

St. Nicholas the Wonderworker at Tverskaya Zastava, temple
The Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker at the Tverskaya Zastava is an Old Believer temple; built on the site of a wooden chapel on Tverskaya Zastava Square.
Construction of the temple began in 1914, consecrated in 1921. It is an architectural monument.
The first design of the temple was carried out by I. G. Kondratenko (1856-1916) in 1908 by order of the Old Believer merchant I. K. Rakhmanov, who owned a plot on the spit of Butyrsky Val and Lesnaya Street in the style of white-stone Vladimir architecture. For Kondratenko, who built dozens of apartment buildings, this was his first project in temple construction. The project was then approved by the city government, but construction was postponed for unknown reasons. Six years later, the community called on another architect - A. M. Gurzhienko (1872 - after 1932), who completed a completely different project. For Gurzhienko, a specialist in road work and reconstruction of old buildings, this was also the first temple project.
Probably, by the time Gurzhienko was called, the zero cycle had already been completed, since the external outlines of the building exactly coincide with Kondratenko’s design. But the temple itself is made in the style of early Novgorod architecture, approaching the historical Church of the Savior on Nereditsa, while inside it is pillarless (in Kondratenko it is six-pillared). The temple's tented bell tower also imitates Novgorod belfries. Construction during the First World War was financed by P.V. Ivanov, A.E. Rusakov and others. At that time, near the Tverskaya Zastava there were two more large churches in the Russian style: the Cathedral of St. Alexander Nevsky (architect A. N. Pomerantsev, 1915) on Miusskaya Square and the Holy Cross Church at the Yamsky schools (1886). Both were destroyed.
Through the efforts of the community, the temple was completed and consecrated in 1921. Life in the temple lasted only 20 years. In 1941 it was closed by the Soviet authorities.
At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the temple housed a local air defense warehouse.
Later it housed the workshop of the sculptor S. M. Orlov. It was here that he worked on the monument to Yuri Dolgoruky.
Then the workshop of the All-Union Art and Production Plant named after. E. V. Vuchetich.
In 1993, the temple was returned to the Russian Orthodox Old Believer Church. The first prayer service in the chapel of Elijah the Prophet took place on August 2, 1995. There is an Old Believer bookstore at the temple.

The name of the Yamskaya Tver settlement was given after the settlement of coachmen that existed here. Yam settlements began to form at the end of the 16th century, when the need arose for regular communication within the country. Thus, Boris Godunov settled a whole settlement of coachmen at the Tver Gate of the Wooden City, whose duty was the Yamskaya chase - the delivery of mail and royal messengers along the road connecting the capital with Tver and Novgorod. The settlement grew larger over time and was built up with long parallel rows of houses along the main road. The resulting streets were named Tverskoye-Yamskiye under different numbers. And over time, Yamskaya labor was supplanted by railway traffic, and the former Yamskaya settlement became an ordinary area of the city.