On Friday evenings after work (since you can sleep peacefully on Saturday), it’s almost a tradition that I go into the city to photograph something. This time I decided to go to the Moscow district of Orekhovo-Borisovo, to photograph the temple complex of the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity.
Although this is a remake, it is made very beautifully, in the Byzantine style, which is quite unusual for Moscow architecture.
From Wikipedia:
The Church of the Life-Giving Trinity on Borisov Ponds, in Orekhov-Borisov is an Orthodox church in the south of Moscow. Geographically located in the Orekhovo-Borisovo Northern region. Built in the early 2000s in memory of the thousand-year anniversary of the baptism of Rus'.
It has the status of the Patriarchal Metochion.
The decision to build a church in Moscow in honor of the Holy Trinity, dedicated to the anniversary of the Baptism of Rus', was made in 1988, but was originally planned in a different place, somewhat to the west of the present (near the Tsaritsyno museum-reserve on June 13, 1988, Patriarch Pimen consecrated the foundation stone, which was a consequence of the Executive Committee of the Moscow Council satisfying the request of the Moscow Patriarchate, expressed during the meeting of the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee M. S. Gorbachev with the Patriarch and members of the Synod on April 29 of the same year; but construction was not started for a number of reasons, in particular, due to the fact that it began in 1995 year of reconstruction of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior on Volkhonka).
On September 1, 2001, Patriarch Alexy II performed a prayer service for the beginning of the construction of the memorial church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Orekhov-Borisov.
By the spring of 2004, the construction of the temple building was completed, a team of icon painters under the leadership of People's Artist of the Russian Federation, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Arts Vasily Nesterenko began painting the temple, the project of which was approved by His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Alexy II and Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov May 12, 2004. The grandiose ceramic iconostasis was made by St. Petersburg workshops under the direction of the artist Yuri Volkotrub. All the icons for it were painted by Anna Kalinina, a famous Moscow icon painter, whose original work on creating 48 icons of this iconostasis was recognized by the Russian Academy of Arts as one of the best in Moscow. From the Russian Orthodox Church, Anna Kalinina received the gold medal of the Order of St. Sergius of Radonezh (2004) and the Silver medal of the Russian Academy of Arts (2012). The icons in the icon cases were made by icon painters under the direction of Elena Knyazeva. For this work she was awarded the Order of St. Sergius of Radonezh of the Russian Orthodox Church, III degree.
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I immediately liked the place where the temple complex was built. On the shore of a large reservoir, surrounded by a park and apple orchards. It’s August now and the branches of the apple trees and the ground beneath them are literally strewn with apples. I took a walk through the park while looking for angles for photos - it smells like apples everywhere!
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Walking around the temple waiting for sunset, I saw an open door to the entrance of a nearby high-rise building. Luck! Usually all entrances are locked with a combination lock.
The house is about 20 floors (I didn’t count), I went up to the 14th floor, went through the fire escape onto the technical balcony - and there it was, beauty! There was a magnificent view from the height - the people who live in this house are lucky!
I didn’t climb to the very top, because... I wanted to take the sky into the frame too.
I set up a tripod and waited for sunset and evening light. The sunset was amazing this time!
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But there was no luck with the evening lighting - it never turned on, although the spotlights were installed. But there was still light - the temple was illuminated by the weak light of street lamps. And maybe even this was for the better - the light was softer, without overexposure, but yellow.
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I'll probably have to try to catch the backlight in the future. There appear to be halogen lights that produce white light. I think that with the bright white temple, the previous photo (#6) should look good.
After waiting about another hour, suddenly the automation would work and the backlight would still turn on, I got ready to go home.
Finally, I took the same view as at the very beginning.
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It was from this house (in the center of the frame) that I filmed. A row of balconies is just visible, on one of which my tripod stood.
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Trinity Church in Orekhov-Borisov (1000th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus')
Orekhovo-Borisovo Northern
Church. Valid.
Thrones: Life-Giving Trinity
Year of construction: Between 2001 and 2004.
Architect: M. Posokhin, V. Kolosnitsky and others.
Website:
Address: Moscow, Kashirskoe highway, vl.61a
Coordinates:55.62744, 37.71181
Directions: from Domodedovskaya metro station towards the center of the bus. 95, troll. 67, 71; from metro station "Kashirskaya" towards MKAD bus. 95, 117, 766, 298, 299, troll. 11, 71, 67 to the stop "7th microdistrict Orekhovo-Borisovo"; from metro station "Orekhovo", author. 117, 711, 709 to the stop "Kashirskoye Shosse"; from the metro station. "Krasnogvardeiskaya" bus 711 to the stop "Ulitsa Generala Belov" or troll. 11, to the stop "7th microdistrict. Orekhovo-Borisovo"
Trinity on Borisovskie Ponds Church (Borisovskie Ponds Street, building No. 15, building 4).
In Orekhov-Borisov, by 1996, the second largest church in the capital was built - the Cathedral of the Life-Giving Trinity, which can accommodate up to three thousand people. It became the center of a larger new complex - the Patriarchal Metochion in honor of the 1000th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus'. The complex, visible from the Kashirskoye Highway, includes the buildings of the Patriarchal Metochion, which include, at the rear of the cathedral, the chapel of the blessed Prince Alexander Nevsky, a belfry, a Sunday school building and a clergy house with administrative premises.
The idea of building an administrative center of the Russian Orthodox Church originated in 1988, the year of the 1000th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus'. A competition was held, in which the project of architect A.T. won. Polyansky. But the start of work was postponed; Polyansky died in 1993, without starting construction. They returned to the project thirteen years later, and it was completely redone. The church area was reduced more than five times, and it amounted to 1,100 square meters. In October 2000, the Baltic Construction Company began construction work. Already in 2001, a church complex began to grow before our eyes. The first completed building was the chapel in the name of the blessed Prince Alexander Nevsky. A little later, the builders erected a bell tower, on the sides of which there are chapels. The shapes of the bell tower in miniature repeat the Trinity Church. The lower tier of the belfry is the gateway to the entire complex; it is the road from Kashirskoye Highway that approaches it over a bridge. By the beginning of 2004, construction was completed. Particularly labor-intensive work was carried out on the interior decoration of the temple, where expensive materials were used - marble, gilding. In addition, a porcelain iconostasis made by the St. Petersburg art and restoration workshop “Guild of Masters” by Yuri Volkotrub was brought to the cathedral, which is distinguished by its grace and the highest execution. The painting work was carried out under the guidance of the Honored Artist of Russia Vasily Nesterenko. The group of icon painters was led by Anna Belyanova. On May 19, 2004, the church was consecrated and the first liturgy was served. The temple was built in the Byzantine style.
This is a single-domed cubic building, to which semi-circular exedra are attached on all four sides, while the plan of the temple turned out to be cruciform. In the eastern exedra there is the main altar, in the side chapels there are chapels, and in the western exedra there is a vestibule. The temple is covered with a powerful sail vault resting on the walls, as in ancient Byzantine buildings. The building is completed with a powerful dome, in the drum of which there are twelve windows according to the number of apostles. The huge spherical ribbed dome is painted bright blue - a symbol of the Mother of God and angelic powers. The temple seems multi-domed, since the shape of the dome is repeated by the semi-domes of the exedra, almost equal in diameter to the main dome. The bell tower facing the west is completed with the same, only smaller, domes and half-domes. The walls are painted a warm pinkish color, somewhat reminiscent of the color of the walls of the first ancient Russian churches in Kyiv and Novgorod. A two-story parable building was also built on the territory of the Patriarchal Compound. An underground passage was made from the clergy's house to the temple.
The complex also includes a Sunday school building. The buildings of the complex, both church and secular, are decorated with mosaics made in the workshop of Ekaterina Ogorodnikova in St. Petersburg. The complex of the Patriarchal Compound also included a baptistery, which is a separate room that allows for the baptism of everyone - from infants to the elderly. The Patriarchal Compound is connected to the Kashirskoye Highway by a white-stone arched pedestrian bridge leading to the gate bell tower.
Mikhail Vostryshev "Orthodox Moscow. All churches and chapels."
Gate bell tower
Belfry height - 15 m
Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Orekhov-Borisov
Address: Moscow, Kashirskoe highway, 61a
Website http://www.1000let.ru/
When designing the bell tower, the developers considered two options: to build it as a free-standing one or as a gate tower. The decision was made in favor of the gate. And indeed, the choice turned out to be successful: the belfry became a decoration of the temple complex, while fulfilling its direct function. It owes its non-standard size to the central entrance to the complex, located under the bell tower. The belfry was built in record time, but finishing the exterior with marble decorations took a lot of time. The rounded shape, blue dome, marble decorations - everything is chosen in the same style as the entire complex. When choosing bells, the Baltic Construction Company chose the products of the Voronezh company Poddorozhny and Co. Back in 2001, 11 bells were brought (the largest of them weighs almost 2500 kilograms), which were installed on the belfry only in 2002, and already in 2003 a platform was erected on the belfry and a “control system” was installed. It should be noted that throughout the three years of construction, the bells never stopped and accompanied weekly Sunday prayer services with the reading of akathists.
Chapel of Alexander Nevsky in Orekhovo-Borisov.
Address:115563, Moscow, Kashirskoe highway, 61a
Directions: m. "Kashirskaya", buses No. 287, 299, 291, 608, trolleybuses No. 67, 11 to the stop "7th microdistrict Orekhovo-Borisovo"
Year of construction: Between 2003 and 2004.
Architect: E. V. Ingham
Chapel. Valid.
Consecrated in honor of: Alexander Nevsky
Website http://www.1000let.ru/
Coordinates:55.627063, 37.711414
Orekhovo-Borisovo Northern
Moscow diocese (city) / Danilovsky deanery
The first building to appear on the territory of the complex was the chapel of the Holy Blessed Grand Duke Alexander Nevsky. Despite the fact that it was built in the shortest possible time, its beauty and grace are not inferior to all the other buildings of the Patriarchal Metochion complex. For two years, prayer services were held there on Sundays with the reading of akathists, but at the end of 2003, prayer services began to be held in the temple. The height of the chapel is 16.4 m. Mosaic panels on the Alexander Nevsky Chapel, belfry and Sunday school were made at the St. Petersburg Mosaic workshop of Ekaterina Ogorodnikova. Eight mosaic portraits of the Patriarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church were also made there for the Patriarchal Hall.
http://sobory.ru/article/?object=10137
The building of the music and choir school at the Cathedral of the Life-Giving Trinity in Orekhovo-Borisovo (Moscow).
Temples and monasteries in Moscow and the region
The Church of the Life-Giving Trinity on Borisov Ponds (also known as the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in honor of the millennium of the Baptism of Rus' in Orekhovo-Borisov) was built in 2004 in memory of the thousand-year anniversary of the Baptism of Rus'. (Address: Kashirskoe highway, building 61a).
I want to show three of my favorite new temples. These temples are very beautiful, but there is nothing special to say about them, so the text will be boring.
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The emergence of the village of Borisov is associated with the name of Tsar Boris Godunov. At the end of the 16th century, Godunov built a developed cascade of ponds on the Gorodenka River, which flowed through the palace estate. The Upper Pond began near the village of Chernaya Gryaz (later Tsaritsyno).
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On the shore of the last, eastern pond, the settlement of Borisovo arose - an economic village of the palace village of Kolomenskoye. The pond retained its ancient name “Borisovsky” or “Tsareborisovsky”. Borisovo was part of the palace lands until 1917.
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As a village with a church, Borisovo was first mentioned in the parish salary books of the patriarchal order for 1628. This does not mean that there was no church place here before. The first wooden church was dedicated to St. Nicholas.
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Then a new, white stone church was built, dedicated to the Holy Life-Giving Trinity. The exact date of its construction is unknown.
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The church stood near the very shore of the pond, and nearby there was an old cemetery. Such an inconvenient location of the cemetery next to water was completely unacceptable for sanitary reasons.
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Moreover, the construction of the palace complex in Tsaritsino with all kinds of dams caused a further sharp rise in water.
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The old white stone church quickly fell into disrepair due to constant dampness and threatened to collapse.
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The collection of donations began for the construction of a new temple on the hill, but it moved very slowly, since a third of the Borisov village were Old Believers.
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The new church was built and consecrated in 1873, finishing continued until 1874. At the same time, a large bell was raised to the bell tower.
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Under the Bolsheviks, the church was closed, partially destroyed and converted into a grain warehouse for the Borisov state farm.
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In the summer of 1988, in the year of the celebration of the 1000th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus', the foundation stone of the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity, dedicated to this event, was consecrated on the banks of the Borisov ponds in the Orekhovo-Borisovo area. Construction of the temple began only in 2000 at a new location near the Kashirskoe highway.
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In October 2000, with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Rus', a cross was installed in a new place and the first prayer service was held, and on September 1, 2001, with a huge crowd of people, the foundation stone of the future Church of the Life-Giving Trinity was consecrated.
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The complex, which has the status of the Patriarchal Metochion, consists of a church, a clergy house, a children's music school and three chapels. The temple can accommodate up to 4,000 people at the same time.
All domes are painted blue - a symbol of the Mother of God and angelic powers.
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Fais se que dois advienne que peut.
In Orekhovo-Borisov, the second largest temple in the capital is the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity, which can accommodate up to three thousand people. On Borisov Ponds, clearly visible from the Kashirskoye Highway, a whole complex of the Patriarchal Metochion with the Alexander Nevsky Chapel, a belfry, a Sunday school building and a clergy house grew up.
History of construction: In the summer of 2002, on the eve of the Feast of the Holy Trinity, which is also called the day of the Descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles, in the temple under construction, in the central dome in the afternoon, a terrible fire began, raging over an area of over 500 square meters. m. 25 fire fighting vehicles took part in the extinguishing. However, church representatives were not upset by this emergency, but, on the contrary, were happy. From a theological point of view, fire is a symbol of purification, which means that the construction of the temple from the purely earthly, physical meaning of the word passed into another - spiritual - hypostasis.
However, at first the new temple was tested not by fire, but by water. Initially, the construction of the Patriarchal complex, which was planned to be built in honor of the 1000th anniversary of the baptism of Rus', was supposed to be in a different place. In 1988, a site was allocated on the opposite side of the Kashirskoye Highway. The place was consecrated and a stone was laid, but the matter did not go any further at that time. They returned to the project 13 years later: in 2001, the Baltic Construction Company-Moscow (BSK-M) proposed to build the second temple in Russia after the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, not only in size, but also in importance. Therefore, the name - Life-Giving Trinity - was given to it not by chance, but as thanksgiving to God, who enlightened Rus' with baptism.
But when the builders began to examine the site where construction was to begin, they discovered that it was impossible to build there. As geodetic studies showed, the initially chosen location was unsuccessful: groundwater could have washed away the foundations of the buildings. Therefore, the construction of the temple was moved to the opposite side of the Kashirskoye Highway, where the capital authorities allocated a plot of one and a half hectares.
Another completely unexpected obstacle was the performance of a group of residents of Orekhov-Borisov. Apparently, they were worried that they would lose a place to walk their dogs, they would lose their apple orchard... At first they staged noisy demonstrations at the construction site, and one night someone(?) sawed down a wooden cross at the site of the future construction.
Nevertheless, already in 2001, a church complex began to grow before our eyes near Borisov Ponds. First, the chapel of the blessed prince Alexander Nevsky appeared. A little later, the builders erected a belfry with 12 bells, on the second floor of which two more chapels were built. A Sunday school is located nearby, where children will be given music lessons and choral singing in the rehearsal hall. The concerts will take place in the main “round” hall with excellent acoustics. In addition, children will be able to master icon painting and learn church applied arts - embroidery, wood carving, working with stone and metal.
There are several work rooms in the clergy building. The meeting room is decorated with stucco, pilasters, and wallpaper reminiscent of antique fabric. The hall is decorated with solemn light marble.
As in ancient times, an underground passage was made from the clergy house to the temple. On the one hand, it’s more convenient to get there, on the other hand, it’s a tribute to tradition. Many churches and monasteries in Rus' had underground passages. The Patriarch's Compound will be connected to the Kashirskoye Highway by a white-stone arched pedestrian bridge. And the residents of Orekhov-Borisov had no reason to worry about the trees: the builders did not cut down a single apple tree.
The temple itself is made in the Byzantine style - a single-domed cruciform building with four chapels. First Deputy Chief Architect of the capital Mikhail Posokhin took part in its design. The ground floor is used as a meeting room. A gilded cross is installed on the central dome, the domes are painted blue - a symbol of the Mother of God and angelic powers, the walls are pink.
