Church of the Life-Giving Trinity on Borisov Ponds. Eagles and other birds from the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity Temple of the Life-Giving Trinity in Orekhovo-Borisovo schedule

Moscow Church in honor of the Life-Giving Trinity in Orekhov-Borisov, patriarchal courtyard in honor of the 1000th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus' within the Moscow diocese

The Trinity Church and other buildings of the patriarchal courtyard were erected on the banks of the Borisov Ponds, in a complex but picturesque landscape. The buildings are visible from Kashirskoye Highway, from which a white-stone arched pedestrian bridge leads to the gate bell tower.

The idea of ​​building an administrative center of the Russian Orthodox Church was put forward in the year, in connection with the celebration of the 1000th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus'. Official permission to build a new church in Moscow became a sensation at that time. The temple was founded on June 13, 1988 in the Tsaritsyn Ponds area, near the Kashirskoye Highway. The laying of a stone at the foundation of the temple was accompanied by a divine service with the participation of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Pimen. At that time, the high priest expressed the meaning of the temple in the following words:

"So, the first stone has been laid in the foundation of the future temple, dedicated to the 1000th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus', a temple in memory of all our compatriots who laid down their lives in defense of the sacred borders of our Motherland in the Patriotic Wars" .

A competition was held, in which the design of the architect Anatoly Polyansky won. The RSO was organized to build a temple in honor of the Millennium of the Baptism of Rus' (in the years Archpriest Sergius Suzdaltsev was the director), but the start of work was kept postponed. In the year Polyansky died, and then the main temple-building project of the capital was the restoration of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. As a result, construction of the temple began only thirteen years later, and the original project was radically revised. The area allocated for the new patriarchal courtyard in honor of the 1000th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus' was reduced by more than five times, and it amounted to 1,100 square meters.

Architecture

Trinity Church is the center of the patriarchal courtyard in honor of the 1000th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus', which also includes a chapel, a bell tower, a Sunday school building, a two-story clergy house with administrative premises (connected to the temple by an underground passage). The domes of the courtyard buildings are painted bright blue - a symbol of the Mother of God and angelic powers, and the walls are a warm pinkish color, reminiscent of the color of the walls of the first Russian churches in Kyiv and Novgorod.

Trinity Church

The massive temple was built in the neo-Byzantine style. Capacity - up to three thousand people, height with a cross - 70 meters. This is a single-domed cubic building, to which semicircular exedra are attached on all four sides, which made the plan of the temple cruciform. In the eastern exedra (apse) there is the main altar, in the side chapels there are chapels, and the western one is the 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 majestic hemispherical ribbed dome, in the drum of which there are twelve windows according to the number of apostles. The semi-domes of the exedra follow the shape of the dome and are almost equal in diameter, which is why the temple seems multi-domed.

Alexander Nevsky Chapel

The chapel in the name of the blessed Grand Duke Alexander Nevsky became the first structure erected on the courtyard. Located southwest of the temple. The building is topped with a hemispherical

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).

Now in Moscow there are a lot of newly built churches. Sometimes among them there are very beautiful ones, but there is nothing special to say about them, so the text will be boring.

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).

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.

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.

Then a new, white stone church was built, dedicated to the Holy Life-Giving Trinity. The exact date of its construction is unknown.

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.

Moreover, the construction of the palace complex in Tsaritsino with all kinds of dams caused a further sharp rise in water.

The old white stone church quickly fell into disrepair due to constant dampness and threatened to collapse.

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.

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.

Under the Bolsheviks, the church was closed, partially destroyed and converted into a grain warehouse for the Borisov state farm.

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.

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.

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.

Orthodox church
at Borisov Ponds
A country	Russia
City	Moscow
Architectural style	neo-Byzantine
Author of the project	Kolosnitsyn V.V. and etc.
Construction	- years
State	Valid
Website	Official site

Church of the Life-Giving Trinity on Borisov Ponds- Orthodox church on Kashirskoye Shosse street in Moscow.

Construction

The decision to build in Moscow, at 61 Kashirskoe Highway, a temple complex dedicated to the Millennium of the Baptism of Rus', was made in 1988. On September 1, 2001, His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II performed a prayer service for the beginning of the construction of the memorial church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Orekhovo-Borisov . By the spring of the year, the construction of the temple building was completed, a team of icon painters under the leadership of the Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Arts V. I. Nesterenko began painting the temple, the project of which was approved by His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Alexy II and the mayor Moscow by Yu. M. Luzhkov May 12, 2004

Consecration of the temple

On May 19 of the year, in the south of Moscow, in the Borisov Ponds area on the Day of Easter, in the presence of a delegation of the Russian Church Abroad led by the First Hierarch of the ROCOR, Metropolitan Laurus, the Plenipotentiary Representative of the Russian Federation in the Central Federal District G. S. Poltavchenko, the head of the Baltic Construction Company I. A. Naivalta His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Alexy II consecrated the temple-monument of the Life-Giving Trinity on Borisov Ponds, dedicated to the 1000th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus'.

Temple architecture

The complex of buildings on Borisov Ponds was designed in the Byzantine style: the temple itself is a single-domed cruciform building with four chapels. Its height (with a cross) is 70 m; capacity - up to 4 thousand people. In the basement of the temple there is a baptistery for adult baptism through complete immersion. The complex of the Patriarchal Metochion on Borisov Ponds also includes a clergy house, a Sunday school, a belfry and a chapel in the name of

What is what in the church

The idea arose back in 1988, but at that time many buildings were returned to the Church, so the construction of a new temple was delayed.

The Church of the Life-Giving Trinity was erected on a hill - as was customary before. They built a single-domed cruciform building in the Byzantine style. The height with the cross is 70 meters.

On the left in front of the entrance hangs a marble plaque with the inscription: This temple, marking the first millennium of the baptism of Rus', was erected by the grace of God with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Rus' through the labors and funds of the Baltic Construction Company. 2004 from the Nativity of Christ. On the right is a marble plaque with a list of the temple's board of trustees. Inside the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity there is a porcelain iconostasis in the traditions of the famous Kuznetsov workshops.

The Patriarchal Metochion on Borisov Ponds also includes a clergy house, a Sunday school, a belfry and a chapel in the name of Prince Alexander Nevsky.