How to get a project
The mechanism for using the project for the construction of a temple complex in your diocese:
1. It is necessary to send to the name of the chairman of the Financial and Economic Department of the Russian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Ignatius of Vologda and Kirillov requesting a project of your choice. FHU grants the right to use the project to a diocese or a specific parish.
2. Since the copyright holder of the projects is the Russian Orthodox Church represented by the FHU, then the project you have chosen is provided on the basis of the Agreement signed with the FHU. For this reason, in order to conclude an agreement You need to provide the FHU with the details of the legal entity with which the contractual relationship will be concluded.
3. The binding of the temple and the parish house is carried out at a specific address by the forces of the design organization involved by the diocese or parish.
4. Examination of project documentation linked to a specific address is carried out in a regional expert organization.
Design documentation for temple complex with the temple of the icon Mother of God"Burning Bush" on Michurinsky Prospekt in Moscow
This was announced by the assistant rector of the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God "Burning Bush". The address where it is planned to build a temple complex: Michurinsky Prospekt, opposite vl. 15.
Recall that a small wooden church was erected at the parish. In the spring of 2015 - in the anniversary year of the 1000th anniversary of the death of the Baptist of Rus' - the temple was consecrated in the name of Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir. Regular services are held in the church.
During this time, the parishioners raised funds for the development of the project of the main temple complex with the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God "Burning Bush".
Chief architect of the project: Alexander Ivanovich Zusik, General Director of the Architecton company, Candidate of Architecture, laureate of the UNESCO Prize.
In July 2016, the Chairman of the Financial and Economic Department, Metropolitan Mark of Ryazan and Mikhailovsky, agreed on a draft design of the temple complex. Then the designers, headed by the chief architect, began to develop project documentation for the "P" stage. Today, the project documentation is ready and submitted for examination.
A few words about the project
The temple and the parish house are solved in one volume. “If we talk about style, we mainly relied on the Pskov tradition,” says architect Alexander Ivanovich Zusik. — Although, of course, there are also elements of the author's vision. That is, we do not directly follow the tradition. Our temple is reminiscent of historical classical Russian churches, but many of the details are copyrighted, so this is a new project with an individual face.”
Exterior finish
As a decoration of the facades of the temple and the parish house, decorative masonry of solid red brick coated with lime mortar is planned. According to the project, the plinth is lined with granite slabs. The roof covering is polymer-coated aluminum sheet, the domes are coated with titanium nitride.
Filling of window openings - double-glazed windows with aluminum enameled profile. Entrance doors - metal, veneered with precious woods. Internal doors are made of solid wood and metal.
“All materials used must have certificates of compliance with fire protection and sanitary standards,” the architect emphasizes.
Pond shore
“The Temple of the Burning Bush will be located on the banks of the Ochakovsky Pond, viewed from all sides, in particular, from Michurinsky Prospekt. A very advantageous place, - the architect notes. — The temple is viewed from the opposite bank of the pond. This is a rare opportunity to see the temple reflected in the water. Such a classic story. Another good thing: the bell tower faces the pond, which will enhance the acoustic effect. After all, the sound of the bell ringing will be reflected from the water surface. There are not many lakes and rivers in our city where we could use this technique.”
Icon Holy Mother of God Burning bush. holiday eventName " Burning bush' indicates an event Old Testament when the Lord called St. prophet Moses to serve the people of Israel, turning to him from the flame of a burning, but fireproof bush (i.e. bush), which St. the prophet found at the foot of Mount Horeb:
Moses was tending sheep to Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian. Once he led the flock far into the wilderness, and came to the mountain of God, Horeb. And an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a thorn bush. And he saw that the bush of thorns was burning with fire, but the bush was not consumed. Moses said: I will go and look at this great phenomenon, which is why the bush does not burn. The Lord saw that he was going to look, and God called to him from among the bush, and said: Moses! Moses! He said: here I am! And God said: do not come near here; take off your shoes from off your feet; for the place where you stand is holy ground. And he said: I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Moses covered his face; because he was afraid to look at God. And the Lord said: I saw the suffering of my people in Egypt, and heard their cry from their ministers; I know his grief, and I am going to deliver him from the hand of the Egyptians and bring him out of this land into a good and spacious land, where milk and honey flow, into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. And behold, the cry of the children of Israel has already come to Me, and I see the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them. So go: I will send you to Pharaoh; and bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt (Ex. 3:1-10).
According to the patristic interpretation, here appeared a prototype of the Most Holy Theotokos, from whom our Lord Jesus Christ was born, without singing Her with the fire of His Divinity: the burning but unburned bush marked the immaculate conception of the Mother of God of Christ from the Holy Spirit, in which She, having become the Mother, remained a Virgin. One can also give another explanation to the prototype: the Mother of God, having been born on sinful earth, remained unconditionally pure, not involved in any sin, but always lived a perfectly virtuous and immaculate life.
The Appearance of the Icon of the Theotokos the Burning Bush. worship
Troparion, ch. 1:
Even in the fire showing Moses, hedgehog in the flesh on earth Your coming, and even the lawful priesthood to Aaron, foreshadowing the image of the rod to the Benefactor of Thee Born. By her prayers, Christ our God, die our belly like a Lover of mankind.
Kondak, ch. 8:
We will also be cleansed divinely in the Soul, and we will ascend Mount Sinai by faith, so that we see there the fiery bush, the Virgin proclaiming the Nativity. And when we see it, let us all bow out loudly with fear, rejoicing in the Bride, the Brideless.
In addition to a special service composed in honor of the appearance of the icon, the image of the "Burning Bush", symbolizing the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin, is also found among other church hymns dedicated to the Mother of God. So, for example, we sing in the Sunday dogma of the 2nd tone:
Pass the lawful canopy, grace has come. As if the bush did not burn down, bursting into flames, so the Virgin gave birth to eat, and remain the Virgin. Instead of a pillar of fire, the righteous sun rises. Instead of Moses, Christ, for the salvation of our souls.
Revealed there is a bush, unrepentantly staying, having received the flame, Rejoiced Prepetaya, Your sacrament is glorious. After the birth, you will remain Pure Ever-Virgin(Canon of the Annunciation, Ode 4).
One of the proverbs on the Annunciation tells of the same miraculous vision of St. Ave. Moses burning, but fireproof bush.
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Icons Burning Bush
One of the most ancient icons of the Theotokos of the Burning Bush known in Rus' was brought to Moscow by Palestinian monks in 1390 and installed in the altar of the Annunciation Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin. According to legend, the icon was painted on the stone of the rock where Moses saw a wonderful fireproof bush. In the middle of the 16th century, the symbolic and allegorical composition of the Burning Bush icon arose, and since that time it has become one of the most common in Russia. miraculous icons Mother of God, revered as a protector from natural disasters, especially from fire.
The icon of the Mother of God "The Burning Bush" is one of the most versatile icons of the Mother of God in terms of composition and symbolic interpretation. Here, several Old Testament images are used at once, which are revealed further in the plots that are presented along the edges of the icon.
The image has been known since the early centuries of Christianity. Initially, the "Burning Bush" was depicted as a burning bush with the image of the Mother of God enclosed in it (usually in the type of Sign or Oranta) and the kneeling prophet Moses in front of him. Later, already in the 16th century, a rather complex symbolic and allegorical image was formed in the form of an octagonal star surrounding the half-length image of the Mother of God and the Christ Child
The center of the composition is an oval medallion depicting Our Lady Hodegetria the Guide. On Her chest is often depicted a ladder, which the holy Patriarch Jacob saw, leading from earth to Heaven itself. She is also associated with the Mother of God, as with the Ladder, which paved the way to heaven. The image of the chamber symbolizes the house of the Infant Christ. Four green rays indicate the bush itself, i.e. a bush, four red rays - a red flame around a burning bush.
In the rays of blue (or green) color, the ministry of the angels of the Mother of God and worship are depicted. heavenly powers the miraculous birth of God from the Virgin. The number of angels and their distribution around the Mother of God varies at the choice of the icon painter. In the rays of fiery red, the symbols of the holy evangelists mentioned in the Apocalypse are usually written: Angel (Matthew), Eagle (Mark), Taurus (Luke) and Leo (John). Around the stars in two-petal clouds are the angels-spirits of Wisdom, Reason, Fear and Piety; Archangels: Gabriel with a branch of the Annunciation, Michael with a rod, Raphael with an alabaster vessel, Uriel with a fiery sword, Salafiel with a censer, Barahiel with a bunch of grapes - a symbol of the Blood of the Savior. Above - the Old Denmi, below - Jesse (or the tree of Jesse - as the genealogy of Jesus Christ). Visions of the prophets are placed in the corners of the composition: in the upper left - Moses' vision of the Burning Bush in the form of Our Lady of the Sign in a burning bush, in the upper right corner - a vision of Isaiah Seraphim with burning coal in tongs, below, on the left - Ezekiel's vision of the closed gates, on the right - to Jacob - Ladder with angels.
Temples in the name of the icon of the Virgin Mary Burning Bush
In the Orthodox monastery of St. Catherine on the Sinai Peninsula in modern Egypt (i.e., on the site of the biblical Mount Horeb), a bush is revered, which, according to legend, is considered a burning bush. In 324, the mother of Emperor Constantine, Helen, ordered the construction of a chapel here. The altar of the monastery cathedral is located just above the roots of that very burning bush. Behind the altar is the Chapel of the Burning Bush.
At the direction of the queen, the bush was transplanted a few meters from the chapel, where it continues to grow further. There is no iconostasis in the chapel that hides the altar from the faithful, and pilgrims can see under the altar the place where Kupina grew up. It is marked with a hole in marble slab, covered with a silver shield with chased images of a burning bush, the Transfiguration, the Crucifixion, the evangelists, St. Catherine and the Sinai monastery itself.
According to ancient tradition, the pilgrims enter it Holy place without shoes, remembering the commandment of God given to them by Moses: “Take off your shoes from your feet: for the place on which you stand is holy ground” (Exodus 3:5). The chapel is dedicated to the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary, some icons placed in it are dedicated to the events of the holiday.
The pilgrim Sylvia (Egeria) mentions this chapel and Kupin in her story about the Holy Places of the East, written at the end of the 4th century:
« We needed to go to the beginning of this valley because there were many cells of holy men, and the church in the place where the bush is located: this bush is alive to this day and gives offspring ... And this bush, as I said above, is the one from which the Lord spoke to Moses in the fire, and is located in the area where there are many cells and the church, at the beginning of the valley. And in front of the church there is a lovely garden, with an abundance of excellent water, and in this garden there is a bush».
In honor of the feast of the icon of the Burning Bush, a chapel of the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Putinki in Moscow was consecrated. The church was built between 1649 and 1652. The wooden Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary has been known since 1625 as a church in the Old Embassy Yard, behind the Tver Gates on the land of Novaya Sloboda. In 1648, the wooden church burned down, after which a stone one was built. For the first time in Rus', its chapel was consecrated in honor of the icon of the Mother of God the Burning Bush, which protects from fires. The church became one of the last tent churches built in Rus', in view of the prohibition of their construction by Patriarch Nikon in 1653. The chapel of the "Burning Bush" is located on the north side of the temple and was built simultaneously with the church and the hipped bell tower. After the temple was closed in 1938, it housed offices for a long time, then the rehearsal hall of the Moscow directorate "Circus on Stage". After restoration in 1990, the temple was returned to believers.
Church of the Nativity of the Virgin in Putinki in Moscow Burning bush in nature
The “burning bush” (in the modern concept) is also called dictamnus and ash tree. The scientific name Dictamnus came from the merger of the Greek words - thamnos - "bush" and the name of one of the Cretan mountains - Dicte. This flower was nicknamed ash tree for the similarity of its foliage with ash leaves, but they began to call it the “burning bush” because of its unusual properties. Its fruits contain a large amount of essential oils that are released during the ripening period of the seeds.
There is evidence that if, on a hot sunny windless day, a lit match is brought to the ash tree, a flame will flare up above it, while the plant itself will remain unharmed among the fire. From here came the popular name of these plants - "burning bush". However, the assumption that this plant corresponds to the non-burning "thorn bush" from the Old Testament (Ex. 3:2) is not justified, since the ash tree does not have thorns and therefore, by its nature, does not properly correspond to the Biblical story.
Burning bush. Folk traditions of the holiday
In Rus', on the feast of the Burning Bush, prayers were served in village churches - general and custom. The peasants believed that these prayers protected not only their huts and threshing floor from fire-fire, but they themselves, together with the whole "animal animal" - from fire-lightning. Helps by popular belief, the icon of the Theotokos the Burning Bush even during the fire itself: if you raise it with faith to a flaming building, then it takes the fire away from neighboring buildings.
In many places, religious processions around villages were made on this day. “Do not believe in fire,” says the gray-haired folk wisdom, “only one Mother Kupina the Burning One saves from it!”, “God gave freedom to fire!”, “Do not be afraid of an ax, but fire!”, “Straw and wood do not make friends with fire!”, “Do not meddle with fire!”, “Fire is not water, belongings do not float!”.
A soulful word for the feast of the appearance of the icon of the Burning Bush
Amid the multiplication of natural disasters, when with deep sorrow we learn about large-scale forest fires, about burning houses in cities and towns, we increasingly feel the need for the prayerful intercession of the Intercessor of the Christian race. But, as is known both from Holy Scripture and from patristic teachings, various hardships and disasters in many ways happen to us due to our sins, manifesting in themselves calls to repentance and conversion from sins. Similar examples are found in St. John Chrysostom:
Brothers, we have shaken off the burden of sin from ourselves, let us rise as if from a heavy sleep, from our iniquities and temptation, we are mired in them, we cannot arise, nor look at the heights of heaven. But living in our iniquities, we want to end all our days, remaining in sinful laziness, and darkening our hearts with kindness, not thinking of the punishment of God, even all the days they find on us for our sins. Sometimes with heat, sometimes with a lot of rain, sometimes with cold scum, sometimes with famine and slan, sometimes with pestilence, and with many diseases, sometimes with frequent hosts, and countless misfortunes, sometimes with fire, such as temptation, God punishing us turns to Himself, and sends temporary executions on us, although we will deliver eternal torment.
So says the Lord, call on Me, and I will not listen to you. Evil ones will seek Me, but they will not find Me, not desiring to walk in My way, but deviating into the tracks of crafty demons, and doing their will, if there is fornication and adultery, envy, lies, slander, slander, fraternal hatred, condemnation, anger-holding, spitefulness, violent robbery, and other evil children. For this, for the sake of the sky, the sky is closed: when evil opens, hail in the rain makes a place, and when the fruits are slanted, when the earth languishes with dry land, dividing our malices.
But if we reject all these foretold malices, then, as if by His child, all our petitions will be given to us, we demand them.
(“Chrysostom”, op. 88th).
Temple in honor of the icon of the Mother of God "Burning Bush" in Ochakovo-Matveevsky (preparation for construction)
Address: JSC, intracity municipality Ochakovo-Matveevskoe, Michurinsky Prospekt, opposite vl. 15
abbot : priest Alexander Katunin
Architect: Alexander Ivanovich Zusik, General Director of the Architecton company, Candidate of Architecture, UNESCO Prize Laureate
Parish website: hram-kupina.ru
There is a wooden church at the parish.
CONSTRUCTION:
March 2020: the contractor began to develop a foundation pit for the foundation of the future temple. The land is currently stored on the site.
November 2019: About a construction camp, a reinforcing shop were organized, road slabs were laid. It remains to wait for permission to build the temple.
September 2019: the construction site is fenced, change houses for workers, slabs for access roads are delivered. The contractor is to pour the foundation slab this year.
Submitted for examination design before documentation on the temple complex with the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God "The Burning Bush" on Michurinsky Prospekt in Moscow
In the spring of 2015, during Great Lent, Bishop Ignatius of Vyborg and Priozersk performed a minor consecration of the church in honor of St. Prince Vladimir Equal to the Apostles. The construction of a small wooden church in honor of St. Vladimir at the temple complex of the Icon of the Mother of God of the Burning Bush in Ochakovo, which is under construction, was timed to coincide with the anniversary year of the 1000th anniversary of the birth of the Baptist of Rus'.
On March 22, 2014, the first prayer service was performed at the construction site with an akathist to the Most Holy Theotokos.
Parish news:
In the upper church of St. Andrei Rublev in Ramenki, Moscow, an iconostasis will be installed by the end of March and regular services will begin
A meeting in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior on the construction of churches in Moscow was held by Bishop Foma of Pavlovsk-Posad and State Duma deputy V.I. Resin
On December 29, 2019, it is planned to hold the first service in the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord in Popovka (Meeting in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior)
The construction of three churches is being completed in the Western District of the capital (OBYEZD CJSC)
Construction of three new churches will begin this fall in the Western District of Moscow (OBEZD CJSC)
Permission was received for the construction of the Church of St. Mary Magdalene Equal-to-the-Apostles in Moscow (Meeting in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior)
This year it is planned to complete the design of more than 10 temple complexes. Meeting at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior
Metropolitan Mark of Ryazan and Mikhailovsky, Chairman of the Financial and Economic Department, approved the draft design of the church on Michurinsky Prospekt, 15
Bishop Ignatius of Vyborg and Priozersk performed a minor consecration of the church in honor of St. Vladimir, Equal-to-the-Apostles
Icon of the Mother of God "Burning Bush"
Traditionally Ancient Rus' it is believed that this icon protects housing from fires and is the patroness of all firefighters.
The Burning Bush is a burning, but not burning, thorn bush, in which God appeared to Moses, who was grazing sheep in the desert near Mount Sinai. When Moses approached the bush to see “why the bush burns with fire, but does not burn up” (Ex. 3:2), God called to him from the burning bush and called to lead the people of Israel from Egypt to the Promised Land.
The Burning Bush was one of the Old Testament prototypes that pointed to the Mother of God. This burning but not burning bush signified the immaculate conception of Christ from the Holy Spirit. Having become Matter, the Blessed Mary remained the Virgin. You can also find another interpretation of the prototype of the Burning Bush: the Mother of God, having been born on sinful earth, remained pure, not knowing iniquity.
In church hymns, we often come across this Treasured symbol: "Like a bush that is not burnt and scorched, so the Virgin gave birth to ecu." In the stichera for the Annunciation it is sung: "Rejoice, Burning Kupino." Pious Christian zeal embodied this idea in an artistic image.
Icon
In the center of the image is an image of the Mother of God with a baby, who, as a rule, holds in her hands a number of symbolic attributes associated with Old Testament prophecies: the Mountain from Daniel's prophecy, Jacob's Ladder, Ezekiel's Gate, etc. (The ladder in the hands of the Most Pure Virgin means that through the Mother of God the Son of God descended to earth, raising all those who believe in Him to Heaven.)
This image is enclosed in an eight-pointed star formed by two quadrangles - green and red (the natural color of the Kupina and the color of the flame that embraced it). At the corners of the red quadrangle are depicted a man, a lion, a calf and an eagle, symbolizing the four evangelists. Around it, in turn, are images of four Old Testament scenes: Moses in front of the Bush, the dream of Jacob, the Gate of Ezekiel and the Tree of Jesse.
Story
According to legend, the first icon of the "Burning Bush" was brought to Rus' from Sinai by Palestinian elders in 1390. The veneration of the "Burning Bush" in Moscow is connected with the following legend:
The stirrup groom of Tsar Feodor Alekseevich Dimitry Koloshin was especially fond of the icon of the Mother of God "The Burning Bush", which stood in the entrance hall at the Tsar's Faceted Chamber. Every time he entered and left the palace, he fervently prayed before the image. Once the king was angry with his faithful groom and was going to put him on trial. Meanwhile, Koloshin was completely innocent.
Hoping for the help of the Queen of Heaven, the groom with even greater zeal began to pray before the icon. And very soon his request was heard: the Mother of God Herself appeared to Feodor Alekseevich in a dream and announced that the groom before the tsar was clean and not guilty of the sins erected on him. Then the sovereign ordered a thorough investigation into the case of Koloshin and, not finding his fault, released his faithful servant from the court and returned him to his former location. In gratitude to his Redeemer, Koloshin begged the Tsar for the icon of the “Burning Bush” and in 1680 built a temple in the name of this image.
Tradition tells of other cases. So, the archpriest of the Novodevichy Convent, Vvedensky, told one of the priests of the Neopalimovskaya Church, which was located not far from the monastery, the following: “In 1812, when Moscow was occupied by French troops, I was left alone in the monastery. And once he was frightened by the unexpected arrival of a Polish soldier. The soldier handed me a silver chasuble from the icon of the “Burning Bush” and begged me to return the jewel to the church where it was stolen. The military man added that from the time he took off his riza, he was tormented by a strong melancholy. After the French left Moscow, the archpriest returned the stolen jewel to the Neopalimovskaya church.
Troparion to the Icon of the Mother of God "The Burning Bush"
Izhe in Kupina, burning with fire and fireproof, /
showing Moses and Your Most Pure Mother, Christ God, /
the fire of the Deity is not burning in the womb of the Accepted /
and incorruptible after Christmas,
Toya, with prayers from the flame of passions, deliver us /
and save your hail from fiery flames, /
like the Many-merciful.
The church of the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries, which once stood not far from Smolensky Boulevard and Plyushchikha, between Novokonyushenny and Neopalimovsky lanes, was barbarously destroyed, like many other church buildings in Moscow. I would like to remind you of what we have lost.
The stable settlements in old Moscow were not just a place of compact residence of people engaged in one thing - it was a special world. When at the beginning of Ivan's reign IV Terrible, the settlement of the sovereign's grooms was transferred from Kulishki, where it had long been located, to the area of \u200b\u200bthe current Starokonyushenny Lane, the new settlers first of all erected a small wooden church here, consecrated in memory of St. John the Baptist. According to tradition, John the Baptist was especially revered by the grooms, and churches named after him were usually built in stable settlements. In the middle X VII century, when a widespread renewal of church buildings began in Moscow, the parishioners of Konyushennaya Sloboda also built a stone church. It was consecrated in 1653.
Church of John the Baptist in Starokonyushenny Lane (also not preserved)
But after another Moscow fire, the wooden buildings of the Konyushennaya Sloboda burned out, and only the stone Church of St. John the Baptist survived. The rulers decided not to restore the grooms' settlement in the old place - Moscow, within the boundaries of Zemlyanoy Val, became crowded. Sloboda was transferred to a new location behind Zemlyanoy Val and placed between the current Smolensky Boulevard and Plyushchikha. Not all the inhabitants of the settlement were happy with the housewarming, but they had to obey. In Novaya Konyushennaya Sloboda, grooms built another church in 1680. This time, having changed the traditions of the stable settlements, the church was not consecrated in memory of John. She received the name of the Burning Bush. According to a Moscow legend, the church was built and named by the townspeople "on a vow" to protect Novaya Konyushennaya Sloboda from fires. The icon of the Mother of God "The Burning Bush" was considered in Rus' as a protector from fire. Indeed, fires began to bypass the parish of this church. The famous icon "asked" from the tsar, which had previously been in the palace, was also transferred here. Dimitry Koloshin, close associate of Tsar Fyodor Alekseevich, distinguished himself with special diligence in the construction of the temple. Being under a false accusation, Koloshin offered up prayers before the image of the Burning Bush, praying to the Mother of God for intercession. When the accusation was dropped, the courtier became convinced of the miraculous nature of the image.
One of the lists miraculous image Our Lady of the Burning Bush
According to historical evidence, there were almost no fires in the parish of the Neopalimovskaya church, built up mainly with wooden houses. When another fire broke out in Moscow (and this was a frequent disaster in the city), the temple image of the Burning Bush was carried with a procession around the houses of the parishioners, and they remained unharmed.
The hipped bell tower, very elegant, is typical for church buildings of the late 17th century, and the single-domed church, which was turned into stone in the first years of the 18th century, already bears the imprint of the early baroque. By 1707, the construction of a new church building in stone had been fully completed. It was led by donations from parishioners and, fortunately, everything was built before 1714, when Tsar Peter imposed a ban on the construction of stone buildings in Moscow (in favor of the development of St. Petersburg). Since then, the church has never been rebuilt, only the aisles of St. Mark the Evangelist and St. Dmitry of Rostov were added to it.
View of the church from the 2nd Neopalimo lane
Moscow historian I. Zabelin noted "the original beauty of Russian church architecture", which distinguished the Church of the Burning Bush.
Until 1771, a religious procession was held annually from the Assumption Cathedral of the Kremlin to the Neopalimovskaya Church, in which many Muscovites participated. It was held in memory of the fact that the revered image of the Burning Bush was originally located in the Kremlin.
Another revered shrine that attracted believers to the temple was the ancient icon of the Mother of God "Unexpected Joy".
When the French occupied Moscow in 1812, a Napoleonic soldier unexpectedly came to the archpriest of the Novodevichy Convent and gave him a silver robe stolen from the icon of the Burning Bush from the church in Novokonyushennaya Sloboda. The Frenchman told the priest that ever since he had stolen this chasuble, he had been tormented by a terrible longing. The archpriest, after the expulsion of the French army, returned the robe to the Neopalimovskaya church.
This temple was repeatedly remembered by all the inhabitants of the alleys between Smolensky Boulevard and Plyushchikha. Starting from the famous memoirist Elizaveta Petrovna Yankova, nee Rimskaya_Korsakova, the granddaughter of the historian Tatishchev, whose memoirs were recorded and published by her own grandson D.D. Blagovo (Elizaveta Petrovna lived for some time in a family mansion in the parish of the Burning Bush and could remember a lot), and to Marina Tsvetaeva, whose grandfather A.D. Mein lived in the 1st Neopalimovsky Lane near this church (and the special comfort and atmosphere of these places made Marina, when she got married, look for a mansion similar to her grandfather's, somewhere nearby) ...
Corner of the 1st and 2nd Neopalimovsky lanes, view of the church.
At the end of XI In the tenth century, in 1892, the Elizabethan Committee began to operate at the church, founded by Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, the wife of the Moscow Governor-General, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich. The tasks of the committee included charitable assistance, in particular, cash benefits were given to poor parents for raising children.
In 1899 the temple was renovated. The iconostasis was gilded with donations from parishioners, the chapel of St. Mark the Evangelist was restored, and painters were invited to paint the walls. The guide "Around Moscow", published in 1917 by the Sabashnikov publishing house, mentions this church as the main architectural landmark in the Smolensky Boulevard area.
In 1929, the Moscow Council raised the issue of demolishing the Church of the Burning Bush. No one particularly objected to the demolition, since the People's Commissariat of Education appropriated architectural monument"third category". The Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee decided to demolish the Burning Bush at the same time as the Church of Boris and Gleb on Arbat Square. In the spring of 1930, the church at the corner of 1st Neopalimovsky and Novokonyushenny lanes disappeared. It interfered with the city authorities ... And the sprawling wooden houses, where native Muscovites lived in communal "crow settlements", without any amenities, baths or telephones, lived happily in Neopalimovsky lanes until the end of the 1970s, without disturbing the authorities at all.
The site of the church is now a semi-square-half-vacant lot, partly occupied by playground structures and rare trees. The standard five-story house of the early 1930s, which appeared on the site of the church, is located at the back of the site, breaking the line of the lanes. And if the temple, being the architectural dominant of the old lanes, collected them into a single whole, then the current heterogeneous development only breaks it apart ... Not to mention how correct it is to arrange a children's playground on the site of the old church cemetery.
The photograph of the place where the ghost of the Burning Bush remained was taken by a deletant.
For me, the fate of the Burning Bush has special meaning- the window of my room overlooks the Neopalimovsky lanes. And now I see the roofs of the houses. captured in the picture. And I could see the domes of the beautiful ancient church. Sometimes it seems that their ghostly silhouettes appear in the dusk of the night...
This was announced by the assistant rector of the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God "Burning Bush". The address where it is planned to build a temple complex: Michurinsky Prospekt, opposite vl. 15.
A small wooden church was erected at the parish. In the spring of 2015 - in the year of the 1000th anniversary of the death of the Baptist of Rus' - the temple was consecrated in the name of Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir. Regular services are held in the church.
During this time, the parishioners raised funds for the development of the project of the main temple complex with the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God "Burning Bush".
Chief architect of the project: Alexander Ivanovich Zusik, General Director of the Architecton company, Candidate of Architecture, laureate of the UNESCO Prize.
In July 2016, the chairman of the Financial and Economic Department, Metropolitan Mark of Ryazan and Mikhailovsky, agreed on a draft design of the temple complex. Then the designers, headed by the chief architect, began to develop project documentation for the "P" stage. Today, the project documentation is ready and submitted for examination.
The temple and the parish house are solved in one volume. “If we talk about style, we mainly relied on the Pskov tradition,” says architect Alexander Ivanovich Zusik. - Although, of course, there are also elements of the author's vision. That is, we do not directly follow the tradition. Our temple is reminiscent of historical classical Russian churches, however, many details are copyrighted, so this is a new project with an individual face.”
As a decoration of the facades of the temple and the parish house, decorative masonry of solid red brick coated with lime mortar is planned. According to the project, the plinth is lined with granite slabs. Roof covering - aluminum sheet with polymer coating, domes are covered with titanium nitride.
Filling of window openings - double-glazed windows with aluminum enameled profile. Entrance doors - metal, veneered with precious woods. Internal doors - solid wood and metal.
“All materials used must have certificates of compliance with fire protection and sanitary standards,” emphasizes the architect.
“The temple will be located on the banks of the Ochakovsky pond, viewed from all sides, in particular, from Michurinsky Prospekt. A very advantageous place, - the architect notes. - View of the temple from the opposite bank of the pond. This is a rare opportunity to see the temple reflected in the water. Such a classic story. Another good thing: the bell tower faces the pond, which will enhance the acoustic effect. After all, the sound of the bell ringing will be reflected from the water surface. There are not many lakes and rivers in our city where we could use this technique.”
The territory of the temple complex is planned to be landscaped. It is planned to pave the paths with paving stones. Around the temple complex, a place has been designed for procession and roundabout for fire equipment.
The entrance to the temple complex is planned from Michurinsky Prospekt with the organization of "green parking".
