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Temple of Clement, Pope of Rome, on Pyatnitskaya July 12th, 2012

The Church of Clement, Pope of Rome, is an Orthodox church in honor of the Hieromartyr Clement, located in Moscow at the intersection of Klimentovsky Lane and Pyatnitskaya Street. It is the largest temple in Zamoskvorechye. Its main throne is consecrated in honor of the Transfiguration of the Lord and the second name of the church is the Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior. The current church building was built in 1770.

The temple was first mentioned in written sources under its own name in 1612, in connection with the events of the Moscow battle between the Russian militias and the Polish-Lithuanian army of Hetman Khodkiewicz. On August 24, 1612, heavy battles unfolded between the Cossacks defending the prison and the infantry of Hetman Khodkevich near the "fort (Klimentevsky prison) that was at the place of Clement of the Pope of Rome". During these battles, when the hetman's troops captured the prison and the church of St. Clement, St. Avraamiy (Palitsyn) accomplished one of his feats, stopping the retreat of the Cossacks from the prison.

The first stone temple on this site is dated 1657; in 1662 he already had three aisles.


The temple was rebuilt in 1720, then in 1756-1758 a refectory and a bell tower were added to it.

In 1762, the parishioners received permission to demolish the main volume of the old church, and by 1770, the five-domed Baroque church, which has survived to this day, was completed at the expense of the merchant K.M. Matveev. The authorship of the building has not been established: presumably, it was built by I.Ya. Yakovlev according to the project of Pietro-Antonio Trezzini.

The first found photo of the temple was made in 1882 from Klimentovsky lane:

1905:

1906:

The pavilion, which was located in the fence of the temple, is in the 1920s. Unfortunately, it was demolished in 1932 due to the widening of the street.

The end of the 1920s - the pavilion itself was built in the 18th century. Currently, it has already been restored and is located on the side of Pyatnitskaya Street.

In 1929 the temple was closed.

View from Pyatnitskaya street to the temple in 1931:

The pavilion in 1932 - you can see how badly dilapidated it is - it will be demolished in the same year:

And the next 2 pictures for comparison were taken from Pyatnitskaya Street. The first one was made in 1932 - the pavilion is still in place:

And this is a picture after 1932 with a view of the temple and the already missing pavilion:

In 1934, the temple was given to the Lenin Library for storage of books.

1940 - in front of the temple from the side of Pyatnitskaya street there is a small square with benches:

The first half of the 1960s - the temple itself was very dilapidated and it is a miracle that it was also not destroyed. Here you can see the tram tracks that used to run along Pyatnitskaya Street.

The first color photograph found dates back to 1972 - there are no more tram tracks and trees have grown very strongly in the square in front of the temple.

1975 - view from Pyatnitskaya street:

View of the temple from Klimentovsky lane in 1976:

View of the temple from the other side (not so popular with photographers of those times, judging by archival photographs) from the Tretyakovskaya metro station in the 1980s:

1986:

1989:

1989 - visible on the temple scaffolding- apparently, so that it does not completely collapse:

View of the temple in 1992 from Klimentovsky lane:

Temple fence in the mid-1990s:

View of the temple in the mid-1990s from the Tretyakovskaya metro station:

And finally, a few more archival photographs of the temple in 1997, when it clearly needed restoration:




In 2008, the temple was returned to the Russian Orthodox Church, the books were taken out, and on the initiative of Yu.M. Although the main scaffolding has already been removed. The pavilion was also restored, which until 1932 was in the fence from the side of Pyatnitskaya street.


The entrance to the temple of Clement, Pope of Rome, on Pyatnitskaya is located from the side of Klimentovsky Lane, not far from the exit from the Tretyakovskaya metro station.

The temple of Clement, Pope of Rome, is located on Pyatnitskaya at the address: Pyatnitskaya street, 26, building 1. The nearest metro stations are Novokuznetskaya or Tretyakovskaya.
Official website of the temple -

On the first day of spring, we went to the Tretyakov Gallery for an exhibition by Zinaida Serebryakova. But in this post I want to talk about something else. It so happened that recently I have repeatedly had the opportunity to run along Klimentovsky Lane, between Pyatnitskaya Street and Bolshaya Ordynka. And invariably I was forced to admiringly slow down by the church dominating the lane, almost along the entire left side, if you run towards the Tretyakov Gallery. Several times I just squinted my eyes, glancing at her on the run, then slowed down and read that she was named after Clement, the Pope of Rome, which, to an inexperienced eye, looks somewhat uncanonical for Orthodox church but it got me interested. Then a couple of times I had a camera with me and I tried to shoot it, just like that, because it’s beautiful. In the end, I still have to pay tribute to this temple on the blog pages, otherwise it does not seem to let me go. So I dug quite a bit - and quite unexpectedly fell into the abyss of interesting things related to its history.

An incredible number of historical milestones are intertwined on the map of this small corner of old Moscow. Well, firstly, the area itself - Zamoskvorechye - is one of the most interesting historically, dating back to the beginning of the 13th century, when both Russians and immigrants from the Horde began to inhabit this bank of the Moscow River. Klimentovsky lane connects Bolshaya Tatarskaya Street and Bolshaya Ordynka - two geographical and toponymic reminders of the way to the south - "to the Horde" at once. In this part historically settled interpreters and "Horde" - the so-called tribute carriers, as well as Kazan and Nogai merchants.

Low-lying and not protected from the south by any natural barriers, Zamoskvorechye, or, as it was then called, Zarechye, was a convenient route for enemy attacks on the Kremlin. Under Ivan the Terrible, just in the area of ​​\u200b\u200bKlimentovsky Lane, archery settlements were arranged - settlements, which, together with mobile fortresses - “walking cities”, helped repel another invasion at the end of the 16th century, this time by the Crimean Khan Gaza Giray.

This territory played a decisive role in the fate of the Muscovite state in 1612 during the Polish intervention. It is in Zamoskvorechye that a center of resistance is formed Polish troops and the area is almost completely destroyed during the fighting. On August 24, 1612, the army of Minin and Pozharsky inflicted a decisive defeat on the army of the Commonwealth here. On this day, near the "fort (Klimentievsky prison) that was at the place of Clement of the Pope of Rome" heavy battles unfolded between the Cossacks defending the prison and the infantry of Hetman Khodkevich. During these battles, when the hetman's troops captured the prison and the church of St. Clement, St. Avraamiy (Palitsyn) accomplished one of his feats, stopping the retreat of the Cossacks from the prison. As St. Abraham: “the Cossacks, who ran out of the prison from St. Clement, and looked up at the prison of St. Clement, seeing the Lithuanian banners on the church ... sensibly and sighed and shed tears to God - there were not enough of them in number - and so returning and rushing unanimously to the prison come, and take him up." This was the turning point in the struggle of the militia against the intervention.

Ernst Lissner. Expulsion of the Poles from the Kremlin by Prince Pozharsky in 1612.

The defensive function was the main one for Zamoskvorechye until the times of Peter the Great. After the suppression of the Streltsy revolt, the main participants of which were the inhabitants of the Streltsy settlements of Zamoskvorechye, the Streltsy regiments were disbanded. Some of the rebels were executed, and some were distributed among regular military regiments. The capital was transferred from Moscow to St. Petersburg, and the court shepherds, gardeners, blacksmiths and coiners lost their earnings at court. The only ones who hardly suffered from the changes were the merchants, who also lived in Zamoskvorechye. The lands that lost their owners were distributed either to high military ranks or to merchants (mainly those who were engaged in supplies for the army). Gradually Zarechye becomes the habitat of the Moscow merchants. This fact is clearly reflected in the plays of the famous playwright, a native of Zamoskvorechie, A. N. Ostrovsky, and on the canvases of the painters P. A. Fedotov, V. G. Perov, I. M. Pryanishnikov. Among the inhabitants of the Zarechye there were many millionaires-socialists, for example, Kozma Matveev, according to one version, at whose expense the Church of St. Clement was built on Pyatnitskaya. And the nobles also did not shy away from this area, erecting their mansions here.

Now the Church of the Holy Martyr Clement, Pope of Rome is the largest church in Zamoskvorechye. He was first mentioned under this name just in the chronicle of events in 1612. The name of the lane itself comes from the name of the temple.

The photo is just a few angles of the temple when moving from Pyatnitskaya to Ordynka.

View of Klementovsky lane from Pyatnitskaya

In 1657, the temple was made of stone; in 1662, the duma clerk Alexander Stepanovich Durov built a new one, with side chapels of the Sign and St. Nicholas. Behind this is very interesting story. Duma clerk Alexander Durov was under Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich, in 1636 he was slandered and convicted of death penalty. On the eve of the execution, he had a vision from the icon of the Sign taken with him to prison, which informed him that he would remain alive. The same vision on the same night made the king reconsider the case and acquit the clerk. Moreover, the tsar returned all the privileges that belonged to him, endowed him with estates and rewards from the tsar's treasury. In memory of his salvation, Durov "arrange in that place where his house was, a stone church, decorating it with all splendor in honor of ... Signs."

In 1720, the temple was expanded and rebuilt by the merchant of the first guild, Ivan Komlenikhin.

The temple acquired its current appearance in the middle of the 18th century. In 1756-1758 a refectory and a bell tower were added to it. In 1762, parishioners received permission to demolish the main volume of the old church, and by 1769 the five-domed Baroque church, which has survived to this day, was completed. According to official sources, the construction was financed by a manufacturer, a merchant of the first guild and the richest parishioner of the parish Kuzma Matveev.

However, there is a version that Alexei Petrovich Bestuzhev-Ryumin, Chancellor, was behind him. Russian Empire during the reign of Elizabeth Petrovna. His boyar chambers stood in the parish of the temple, and even in the last years of the reign of Anna Ioannovna, the rector asked the "boyar" for help to the decaying temple. But help was received only after the accession to the throne of Elizabeth Petrovna. This was due to the fact that the accession of Elizabeth to the throne coincided with the feast day of Saint Clement. The Empress ordered in St. Petersburg, in the settlement of the Preobrazhensky regiment, which was the first to swear allegiance to her, to build the Church of the Transfiguration with a chapel in honor of Clement, the Pope of Rome. Bestuzhev, who participated in the coup, followed the example of the empress, and here the existence of the church of Clement in Moscow, which needed restructuring, turned out to be very useful and he allocated a large amount for this. With his elevation, Bestuzhev lost interest in the construction, and it was not completed, but returned to it in 1758 during his disgrace and exile to a village near Moscow. With the accession to the throne of Catherine, Bestuzhev left for St. Petersburg and did not return to the theme of the temple. The mention in all reference books of the name of Kuzma Matveev may be due to the fact that during the disgrace Bestuzhev was forced to act through a figurehead, who turned out to be Kuzma, who served in his former department - foreign. This version was published in 1862 in the Moskovskie Vedomosti newspaper, but no official confirmation has been provided.

The name of the architect is still unknown. There is a version that it could be A.P. Yevlashev, a student of Rastrelli. According to another version, the authorship of the project is attributed to Pietro Trezzini, the godson of Peter I, and dates back to 1742. The church was built in 1762-1770 already in the absence of the architect, who left Russia for his homeland in 1751. In terms of the processing of facades, this is a typical monument of the Baroque era, but its spatial solution is based on a simple cubic volume, crowned with the traditional five domes planted by Elizaveta Petrovna.

The walls, framed by Corinthian columns, do not have altar ledges. In the general appearance of the temple, in the division into front floors, in the patterned metal lattices covering the top of the building, in the abundance of decor, the influence of palace architecture is felt. As academician I.E. Grabar noted, “in its appearance, it falls out of the circle of Moscow monuments of this period, being rather endowed with features of St. Petersburg architecture, but high-style architecture, moreover, which does not have a direct analogy with the work of the leading masters of St. Petersburg.”

The interior of the church was restored in 1900 and 1902, and in 1934 the temple was closed. But his fate turned out to be more prosperous than many others at that time - the building was transferred to the Lenin Library for storage. Now the temple has been handed over to believers again and has been almost completely restored.

This is almost completely from Ordynka

Well, one cannot but say a few words about the saint, whose name the temple bears. The status of the Pope of Rome that confused me, it turns out, was acquired by Clement long before the division of the churches))) Clement was one of the first Christians, baptized and then ordained to the episcopal rank by the Holy Apostle Peter himself, whose closest associate he was. In 91, he became the fourth Pope, and in 98 he was exiled to the quarries of Tauric Chersonese - modern Sevastopol, where he preached, performed miracles and was eventually executed. He is widely revered in the Orthodox Church as one of the first Christian preachers in the Russian lands, his relics were found and brought to Rome not by anyone, but by the saint himself. Equal-to-the-Apostles Cyril, and handed over to Pope Adrian II, who approved worship in the Slavic language and ordered the translated books to be placed in Roman churches. According to some authors, it was the acquisition of the relics of St. Clement that sanctified in the eyes of the Roman Church the educational mission of Cyril and Methodius among the Slavs and the introduction of worship in the Slavic language. Later, part of the relics of St. Clement were brought to Kiev by Prince Vladimir and were also revered as one of the greatest Christian shrines in Russia.

Here's how much you can learn just by being interested in a beautiful Moscow church ...

Good afternoon, dear readers, I haven't written anything for you for a long time, I need to correct myself. Recently, I have visited a lot of places in Moscow, and one of them was Church of Pope Clement in Moscow. The church, I want to tell you, is not like any, I have not seen such a church before, very memorable, below, as usual, a full tour of this place. This is the only baroque church and worth seeing.

I want to remind you that before that we visited wonderful churches with the relics of St. Matrona and Spiridon Trimifunsky. In the first case, it was the Pokrovsky Convent of the Holy Matrona, and in the second, the Church of the Resurrection on the Assumption Vrazhek. I strongly recommend you to go to them, you will not regret it.

Unlike previous walks, the Church of Pope Clement is actually two minutes from the metro, but before walking there, I would like to introduce you to whom it is named after and how this saint became famous in the Orthodox and spiritual world.

I think not many of you can answer the question of who Pope Clement is, and why this church was named after him. This is roughly what this saint looked like.

And so Saint Clement, Pope of Rome, lived in the eternal city of Rome, in the 1st-2nd centuries, during the reign of such emperors as Trajan, Nerva and Domitian. If we turn to tradition, then Clement was from a very influential and noble family, but as a child he was separated from his relatives. Clement was a very inquisitive and stubborn boy, he always tried to find the truth, loved to visit philosophical schools capital, but what he heard there seemed to him something empty and did not quench his thirst for the Absolute. Living in Rome, he received an excellent education, was surrounded by luxury, close to the imperial court. When he learned that the son of God was in Judea, he immediately went there. Since he had long been occupied with the question of what is the meaning of life.

On his way, he met the apostle Peter, who told him about Christ and helped him gain faith. Clement became Peter's assistant in preaching.

Both went to the cities of the Syrian coast and together fought with Simon Magus. Saint Clement became very famous for his sermons, and he was made Bishop of Rome (ca. 91) after Saints Linus and Anaclete. Lin was a Roman bishop in (67 - 79), followed by Anaclet from (79 - 91).

Saint Clement was always greatly impressed by the apostolic sermon; the sermons of Saint Peter had an effect on him. big influence. Here is how he wrote Saint Irenaeus to him

“He who had the preaching of the apostles in his ears and the tradition of them before his eyes”

Humble and meek, well-versed in both Holy Scripture and Greek wisdom, he was able to convert Jews and pagans to faith, telling them about the infinite mercy of God and about the Kingdom of Heaven, awaiting those who, with faith and hope, embark on the path of repentance.

Saint Clement, Pope of Rome, was the author of the famous Epistle to the Church of Corinth, which was even partly used in Holy Scripture. In the writing of Corinth, he calls on those who rebelled against the elders to preserve the unity of the members of the Body of Christ, to respect the hierarchy that the apostles established. In history, there is an opinion that the works also belong to him: the Rules of the Holy Apostles, the Apostolic Decrees.

The time for Christians was very difficult and Clement, by order of Emperor Trajan, was exiled far to the eastern edge of the empire, Tauric Chersonese. There he met 2,000 Christian convicts who were exiled there for their faith. Clement consoled the afflicted, reminded them of eternal bliss, and through his prayer for them, a spring of water gushed in the wilderness. While in a foreign land, he continued to fill the ranks of Christians and teach the pagans. As a result of such activities, 75 churches were built in a year.

After some time, the emperor installed a very bloodthirsty ruler there, whose function was to combat mass conversions to Christianity. The new despot immediately began to fight with Clement. At first, having subjected the bishop to torture, he then ordered that an anchor be tied around his neck and thrown into the Black Sea so that the faithful would not find his body and could not worship him. And yet the Lord did not leave the orphaned spiritual flock without a holy shepherd. He heeded their prayers: the sea miraculously receded, and the Christians saw the body of the saint 300 meters from the shore. Since that time, every year on the day of the death of St. Clement, the Pope, the sea receded so that the faithful could honor honest relics.

Much later, in 860, the Apostle of the Slavs Saint Cyril was sent to Chersonese. Arriving in the city with his brother Methodius, he learned about the miracle and persuaded the clergy and flock to beg God for the relics. After the cathedral prayer at midnight, the honest relics of St. Clement appeared on the surface of the waters. Cyril and Methodius fished them out and brought the shrine to Pope Adrian II in Rome. This connection with one of the first bishops of Rome is very important for the Russian Church and shows its rootedness in the apostolic tradition.

Temple of Pope Clement

And so we found out who Pope Clement is, let's find out how to get to the temple dedicated in his honor. If you have a car, then for you the address

Address of the Church of Pope Clement, st. Pyatnitskaya, 26, building 1

But most of the guests of the capital travel by metro. You will be interested in the Tretyakovskaya station, the orange Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line.

As you can see on the map, the church itself is located 60 meters from the metro, which is very convenient.

Rising from the subway, you will see a building with McDonald's in front of you, I don’t call you there, I just remind you that you can buy tea or coffee there, and use the restroom, for free.

On the left you will see a beautiful church, this is not it :), you will need to turn right.

You will almost immediately see this beauty, she just stands out among the classic Orthodox churches. The temple of Pope Clement was built in the Baroque style using order forms.

You can admire this church endlessly, in different time year or day, she is especially beautiful.

If you go around it a little, you will see beautiful closed gates, they are opened only on holidays.

I hope you liked it short video With appearance temple

Above the gate you will see cherubs.

If you are in Moscow, in spring or summer, and the weather is sunny outside, then you can see such beauty.

Above the main entrance, and it is located right in the center of the temple fence, you will see the image of Pope Clement meeting you.

next to the entrance, you will find a tablet with the history of the temple

The interior of the temple will make you simply dumbfounded by its beauty. Just look at the iconostasis here.

Notice the statues on both sides.

Entering it and turning your gaze up to the dome, you feel so small.

As you can see in the video, it is very beautiful here and calm music plays.

the temple of Pope Clement in Moscow is just a pearl, if you are not even Orthodox, then visit it from an architectural point of view, you will not regret it.

Temple history

Church of the Hieromartyr Clement, Pope of Rome

At the intersection of Pyatnitskaya Street and Klimentovsky Lane stands a large five-domed church of St. Clement, unlike other Moscow churches. She seemed to come from St. Petersburg. The temple is still considered the largest in Zamoskvorechye. But its main treasure is inside - a fully preserved interior decoration of the 18th century.

The first mention of the Church of St. Clement in the sources refers to the era of the Time of Troubles in Russia. On August 24, 1612, during the liberation of Moscow from the Poles, next to the wooden church there was Klimentyevsky prison, near the walls of which a battle broke out between the Cossacks (supporters of the Second Home Guard) and the detachment of Hetman Khodkevich. The battle, which ended in victory for the Cossacks, played an important role in the liberation of Moscow. In the middle of the 17th century, the church of St. Clement was already mentioned as a stone one, in 1720 it was rebuilt by the merchant Ivan Komlenikhin. Finally, in 1756, a large-scale rebuilding of the temple began, affecting primarily its western part - the bell tower and the refectory. The money for the construction of the temple was given by the merchant Kuzma Matveev. There are many versions regarding the direct author of the project: the names of the architects Yevlashev, Trezzini, Michurin, Yakovlev, Blank, Rastrelli appear.

In 1762, construction began on the eastern part of the temple, its main altar in the name of the Transfiguration Savior. The work was completed in full only by 1774. After the construction was completed, the temple included seven thrones with seven iconostases - a huge number for a parish church. In addition to the aisles in the temple and its refectory, two more aisles were consecrated in the choirs. In terms of the richness of its facades, the St. Clement's Church belongs to the outstanding baroque examples in Moscow. The main volume is crowned with five powerful domes on high light drums and richly decorated with stucco depicting cherubs, shells and rocaille. Patterned lattices are used both in the church fence and directly on the temple building, above its cornices. The seven-tiered iconostasis of the main temple, decorated with wooden sculptures, and the iconostasis of the side chapels are sustained in the same baroque spirit.

In 1934 the church was closed for worship. Fortunately, plans for demolition and construction in its place kindergarten were not realized (according to the Zamoskvoretskaya legend, People's Commissar of Defense Kliment Voroshilov interceded for the church of his patron saint), the building was turned into a book depository of the Lenin State Library, whose employees were able to save five of the seven church iconostases, a significant part of the stucco decoration and other interior elements. In 2008, the library finally left the building, after which large-scale work began in it. The revival of the unique temple has been completed: the pavilion lost in the 20th century from the side of Pyatnitskaya Street has been recreated, and the iconostases have been restored. The foundation was strengthened, recreated brickwork and the plaster layer, windows and stucco on the facade, the roof, the domes were restored, which adorned the new crosses, the porch and the lost part of the church fence were restored.

The interior decoration in our temple was formed over almost three centuries!

Some of the revered icons have been in the temple since ancient times. ( from the moment of its construction), and some of them appeared in the temple already in the newest period of its existence. All ancient icons, which we will talk about in this section, underwent the most complex professional restoration in the period from 2010-2016.

You can always purchase reproductions of many of our icons in our Church shop.

Currently, you can pray in front of the following shrines:

1. An ancient icon of ssmch. Clement, Pope of Rome and Peter, Archbishop of Alexandria
( located in a wall kiot to the right of the entrance to the central part of the temple)

This ancient image has been preserved from the first small temple of the schmch. Clement, early 18th century. According to our assumptions, in past centuries, the central part of the icon was taken out of the frame with stamps and, on especially solemn occasions, was placed on religious processions and prayers.

2. An ancient icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker
(The central part of the temple, opposite the iconostasis).

This image, amazing in its spiritual depth and quality of writing, throughout the history of the temple enjoyed the love and veneration of the parishioners. Previously, he was in an icon case in the Nikolsky aisle. V Soviet time through the efforts of the staff of the Restoration Center. Grabar, restoration and conservation work was carried out, so the image has been well preserved to our time. The last restoration took place in 2017.

3. Ancient icon of the Most Holy Theotokos « Mammalian"
(The central part of the temple, opposite the iconostasis).

Previously, the image was in a kiot in the Znamensky aisle of the temple. Just like the previous image, the icon was saved from destruction by the restorers of the workshops named after. Grabar. The last restoration took place in 2017.
A very rare iconographic image. The original of the icon was in the Lavra of Savva the Sanctified near Jerusalem, and is currently kept in the Hilandar Monastery on Mount Athos.

4. Icon ssmch. Clement of the Pope and St. Nicholas the Wonderworker
( ( on right)

The icon of the end of the 16th century was taken out in 1974 from an abandoned Karelian village, where a pious woman lived, who saved and preserved the icon from a temple burned during the revolution. December 6, 2013, on the eve of the feast of the Holy Martyr Clement (8 December), the icon was donated to our church by Muscovite I.I. Vinogradov.

5. Icon ssmch. Pope Clement with the relics of the saint ( big)
( located in the central part of the temple)

The image was painted in 2010 by the famous Moscow icon painter Anna Kalinina, the wife of our rector. Particle of the relics of ssmch. Clement was donated to our church in 2009 by the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra.

6. Shmch icon. Pope Clement with the relics of the saint ( small)
( located in the refectory of the temple in the Klimentovsky aisle ( on right)

The icon was painted in 2005 in the icon-painting workshop of the Grebennikovs in Veliky Novgorod.

7. Icon of the Cathedral of Holy Healers and Unmercenaries
( located in the refectory of the temple ( on right)

The icon was painted by Moscow icon painter Mikhail Dorozhkin in 2007. The image of holy healers from the Church of the Image of Christ the Savior Not Made by Hands in Perovo is taken as a basis and adapted to the baroque style of icon painting in our church.
The icon depicts: Mch. Anikita, mch. Falaley, mch. Tryphon, mch. Diomede, mch. Photius, mch. Cyrus, indefinitely. John, indefinitely. Cosmas, Rev. Sapson stranger, great martyr Panteleimon, healer, schmch. Yermolai, indefinitely. Damian.

8. An ancient icon of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross.
( located in the refectory of the temple ( left)

On September 27, 2014, on the feast of the Exaltation of the Precious and Life-Giving Cross of the Lord, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia performed the rite of the Great Consecration of the temple and donated to our temple the icon of the Exaltation of the Precious and Life-Giving Cross.

9. An exact copy of the Shroud of Turin on canvas
( ( on right)

Accurate copy of the Turin Shroud of the Lord God and Savior Jesus Christwas broughtto our templeSeptember 6, 2014 by blessing His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia. The shrine was donated to our church by the archbishop of the mountains. Turin Mons. Cesare Nosiglia.

Ark with a piece of linen.

10. Ancient icon « The Last Judgment".
( located in the Znamensky aisle in the central part of the temple, on the left)

The icon has been in the church since the end of the 18th century. In the 50s of the last century, it was saved from destruction by the restorers of the Mestorsky them. Grabar. In 2016, the icon underwent a complex restoration.

11. Icon of St. Apostle Andrew the First-Called with a particle of relics.
( located in the Nikolsky aisle of the central part of the temple ( bottom right)

On August 19, on the day of the celebration of the Patronal Feast of our church - the Transfiguration of the Lord, the Athos icon of the Holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called was brought to the temple, after making an icon case and placing in it a reliquary with a particle of his relics.
The relics of the Holy Apostle were transferred to our church from Amalfi (Italy), where for more than 800 years the relics of the Saint have rested in the crypt of the Cathedral of St. Andrew the First-Called.
The icon, painted by an Athos monk, was purchased at St. Andrew's Skete during a pilgrimage trip by the rector of our church, Fr. Leonid and headman Albert Tonoyan on Mount Athos in June 2016.

12. Ancient reliquary and the Gospel XVIII century.
( located in the Nikolsky aisle of the central part of the temple ( on right)

In the reliquary with a crucifix are the relics of the saints of the first centuries of the Christian era: St. schmch. Clement of the Pope of Rome, St. Apostle from 70 Fortunatus,
St. Mark the Evangelist, Saints Procopius and Dionysius.
ancient gospel long time kept in the sacristy of the temple, due to the fragility of the pages, it was not used for worship in our time.