Address: Russia, Nizhny Novgorod region, Nizhny Novgorod, Korolenko street, 14
Start of construction: 1859 year
Completion of construction: 1860 year
Architect: Uzhumedsky-Gritsevich N.I.
Coordinates: 56 ° 18'46.2 "N 43 ° 59'50.1" E
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The majestic temple dedicated to five Moscow saints - Alexy, Peter, Jonah, Philip and Hermogenes, is a real decoration of the central part of the city. Thanks to the painting of the walls with light yellow ocher and whitewash, this church, in any weather, gives the impression of light and sunny, and looks great from all sides. Since the late 1990s, it has been not just a parish church, but also a monastery courtyard.
View of the church from Korolenko street
Temple history
The urban area, in which the temple is now located, began to be actively built up from the middle of the 19th century. It was then that the residents asked the city authorities to build an Orthodox church here, since it took a long time to get to other churches in Nizhny Novgorod. On behalf of the parishioners, Bishop Jeremiah of Nizhny Novgorod petitioned the military governor F.V. Annenkov.
They decided to put the new church at the intersection of German (now Slavyanskaya) and Kanatnaya (now Korolenko) streets. An undeveloped plot was located here, which was owned by the bourgeois A.A. Nazarushkina and soldier A.S. Pozdeev was sold to the city authorities for little money. This section was not even. Previously, clay was mined here, and the ground was covered with pits in various places. Therefore, before starting construction, it was necessary to carry out significant work to level the ground.
The church was built in 1860 by the project of the city architect Nikolai Ivanovich Uzhumedsky-Gritsevich at the expense of the city treasury, parishioners and donations from the Nizhny Novgorod merchant L.M. Kopteva. The temple cost 30 thousand rubles in silver. Its construction took only a year. The bricks for the church were supplied by merchants M.Ya. Kolotilov and I.V. Komarov, the Skvortsov brothers contracted to deliver lime to the peasants from Gorodets, the Nizhny Novgorod merchant I.I. Shchurov, iron - the merchant A.I. Redozubova, and the Spiridonovs' father and son were responsible for laying the walls and ceilings.
View of the south facade of the church
As soon as the white stone floor was laid in the church, three carved pine iconostases were installed and the vaults were painted with frescoes, it was consecrated. Inside the church, canvases were stretched onto the walls and painted with the faces of Christian saints. Oil frescoes appeared here only in 1885. In addition, the Nizhny Novgorod authorities purchased 7 different-sized bells for the church bell tower.
The new parish united 168 neighboring houses, in which almost 700 people of both sexes lived. At first, during the winter months, the church was heated by the Untermark ovens. But in 1985, the Nizhny Novgorod bourgeois I.F. Ryabov arranged a more economical hot-air heating here.
During the active struggle of the Soviet government with religion - in 1930, the temple was closed, and the vacant premises were converted into a hostel. For this, the church chapters and the hipped roof of the bell tower were demolished, as well as all the temple interiors were destroyed. What happened to the icons and church utensils stored here is not known.
In 1997, the church was transferred to the Diveyevo monastery. And almost immediately, the monastic funds began to restore it. The historical appearance of the temple was helped to recreate old photographs taken by M.P. Dmitriev and V.I. Breev, as well as archival drawings and an inventory of property drawn up in 1860. In addition, the old church remained in the drawing of the writer Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko, who lived nearby from 1888 to 1996.
View of the church from Slavyanskaya street
The renovated temple was consecrated in 2004. Six years later, icon painters from the "Kovcheg" workshop completed wall paintings in three temple chapels. In their work, they were guided by the icon painting technique used by Moscow iconographers in the 15th-16th centuries.
Architectural features of the church
The graceful two-height five-domed temple was erected in the Russian-Byzantine style. Its vault is supported from the inside by four pillars. On the west side, a two-tiered hipped-roof bell tower is attached to the church. Church chapters are set on cube drums. The central one is light, and the rest are deaf.
The wall paintings reflect scenes from the Bible, as well as scenes from the lives of the saints of Moscow. In addition, a new carved four-tiered iconostasis, made in the Abramtsevo creative workshop, has been installed in the church.
The current state of the temple and the visiting regime
The Orthodox Church is active and open to all comers. It has the status of a courtyard of the Seraphim-Diveevsky convent. The temple has a well-groomed area with a flower garden, surrounded by a metal fence. The entrance to it is from the side of Korolenko street.
Church services are held here daily, and the temple is open to everyone from early morning until evening. The feast day is celebrated in the church on October 18th.
Mosaic icon of St. Hermogenes on the eastern facade of the church
How to get there
The temple is located in the Nizhegorodsky district of the city, 150 meters from the metro station "Gorkovskaya" on the street. Korolenko, 14.
