Church of the Iverland of God's Mother on Big Ordyanka. Temple of the Iverskaya icon on Ordyanka

Photo: Temple-Chapel of the Iberian Mother of God in the Siletse enemy

Patriarchard Patriarch
Approved to the temple of the Epiphany of the Lord b. Epiphany monastery

Address: Moscow, Resurrection Gate, 1a.
Phone / Fax Church of the Epiphany of the Lord: (495) 698-37-71.
Site: www.bgkg.ru.
Email: [Email Protected].

Directions from the metro station "Revolution Square", "Okhotny Ryad" and "Theatrical".

Worship

Daily from 8.00 to 20.00 prayers are made with reading akathist of the Blessed Virgin Mary in honor of the IVER Icons. The Moscow clergy is served alternately.

Throne holidays

The celebration of the Iverly icon of the Mother of God - February 25, October 26 and on Tuesday, bright weeks.

History

The chapel of the walls of the Resurrection Gate, separating the Red and Manege Square, was built in honor of the miraculous icon of the Iverland of the Mother of God - a list with the icon of the Iverland of Our Lady of the goalkeepers stored in the monastery on the Holy Mount of Athos in Greece. This icon was delivered to Russia in 1614 and was first in the Valdai Iversky Monastery. In 1669 it was transported to Moscow. Until 1782, she remained in the Nikolsky Greek Monastery, next to the Kremlin, and then at the end of the construction of the chapel, took the place prepared for her.
In 1801, the chapel dome was crowned with an angel figure with a cross. After 1917, representatives of the new authorities seized all the decorations and church utensils containing gold and silver, and the building itself was transferred to the renewed church. In 1929, it was closed, and in 1931, together with the Resurrection Gate destroyed, so as not to interfere with the travel of military equipment on the Red Square during parades.
The icon of the Iverland of Our Lady was transported to the Sokolnic Church of the Resurrection of Christ.
In November 1994, Patriarch Alexy II was consecrated by the booking of the Iverly Chapel and the Resurrection Gate. In less than a year, they were restored by the decision of the Moscow Government on the project of Oleg Zhurin.
And in October 1995, a new copy was sent to Moscow from the Iversky Monastery on Mount Athos, a new copy of the Mother of God the goalkeepers.
On October 25, 1995, the chapel was once again open.

Church of the Iberian Icon of the Mother of God

The temple is located along the Little Iversky Lane between the Small and Big Ords. Previously, on the site of the Iversky Temple, there was a wooden church, George Great Martyr, which is at the fall. The church was standing behind the field, on the most southern outskirts of the city. In the book "Moscow. A detailed historical and archaeological description of the city "reports:" The Church of the Holy Great Martyr George is known since 1625; In 1673, the guest of Semen Potapov was built instead of a wooden stone church; The attacks of John the Warrior and the Iverland of the Mother of God, by whom this church now will hear. "

Other names of the temple - "on the Dwelvanovka", "in the dutover", "at Ordyanka", "at Serpukhovsky Gate", "on the Yar". A rich merchant Semen Potapov has also built the church of Mikhail Arkhangel, which is in sheepniks. Earlier in the temple of the Iversk icon of the Mother of God, there was a zinc cross, as if the historical document confirmed the construction date and the name of benefactor. The churches belonged to a large plot of land with a graveyard and the buildings of the church habitation between the big and small orders, the Iversky lane and did not reach this day a dead end from the northern side of the temple. The first stone church consisted of a meerating, bell tower and four with a three-part apse, which was crowned five-chap.

In 1722, John the Warrior was built. Traditionally, the arrival of the church was the rich nobility families, merchant families were significantly less. By the end of the XVIII century, the building took restructuring. This is what you can read in the book of the Publishing House "Orthodox Taganka", dedicated to the Iverk Church: "1788, June, said Church of the priest Vasily Nikitin with parish people, the church of the Iverskaya Icon of the Mother of God, filed by Metropolitan Platon, requested permission" on the present St. Navy. George Church on the Small Space of 5 chapters to make one with permissions magnificent, and came in the name of the Navy. John the Warrior for the closestness of his and the meals, requiring distribution, rebuild ... and arrange another embezzle in the meadow - in the name of the Most Holy Mother of God, Iversky. "

Soon the construction of a new stone temple began, and the old church had to disassemble. Funds to the construction allocated Captain I.I. Savinov, who lived opposite the church. In 1802, the temple was built. It was a rotunda with a bulk meerating and high bell tower. Along the Big Ordinet and the Iversky Lane, a brick fence with an iron fence and two gates were erected. The church was consecrated in honor of the Iberian icon of the Mother of God, and the formerly her came to renamed Georgievsky. Exactly unknown who was an architect of the Iversky Temple, but sometimes called the name I.V. EGOTOVA - Pupil V.I. Bazhenova. The temple acquired rounded outlines - a sign of mature Russian classicism: two-tiered rotunda with apside with rounded ends and a cylindrical drum completed by one-eyed. Western entrance decorated the portico of an ionic order, crowned with a fronton.

The new temple was postponed with the famous icon of the Iverka of the Mother of God from the chapel from the Resurrection Gate. This image of the Mother of God, Icestari was considered Mother's intercession of Moscow. The original icon, which, according to legend, wrote the Apostle Luke, is stored in Athos. In 1648, at the request of Patriarch Nikon, a list was made with a miraculous icon, no different from the original ("New Aki Old," as they said before). Meet the Afonov monks who brought the icon to Moscow, the king came with his family, patriarch, boyars and any people Orthodox. At the site of the meeting, the Voskresensky gate, the Iversk chapel was installed.

Through the Resurrection Gate, the winners warriors were entering the Red Square. Anyone who arrived in the capital - whether there is a king or a simple person - the first thing was to worship the Iver Icon. The bronze sign of the zero kilometer of Moscow is still located directly opposite the Iverly chapel, which from early morning and until late night is overflowing with praying.

In 1792, a list was made from the Iverskaya icon. When the icon was taken out of the chapels for the crosses, solemn worship or prayers in the houses, instead of her this list was exhibited. In 1802, he gained the refuge in the newly built church of the Iverly icon of the Mother of God. After the fire of 1812, wooden buildings left, moreover, the French church itself was looted by the French. The first update after the fire occurred in 1842, and the second - on the occasion of the central anniversary of writing the temple icon of the Iverland of the Mother of God - in 1892.

In 1898 - 1900 for the Family of the Family of the Moscow merchants of Lebedev in the Temple, Incened and gilded the iconostasis and made a new painting. At the beginning of the 20th century, at the territory of the church courtyard there were homes of clergy and the party, stone alternate, laundry, several wooden buildings and a garden. When the Great Princess Elizaveta Fedorovna bought the estate on the Big Ordyanka for the construction of a Marfo-Mariinsky monastery there, she often came to the Iverly church for worship. There is a legend that in 1918, in one of the days of the Easter week, Elizaven Fedorovna was arrested here during the godfather. And now in the temple is kept icon with particles of the relics of the rendering of Elizabeth and Barbara, which churches were presented by the monks of the Jerusalem Monastery of Mary Magdalene, where Elizabeth Feodorovna are relic.

In 1929, the church of the Iverly icon of the Mother of God was closed. The Iverly icon was transferred to the Temple of Nicola in Blacksmiths. At different times, the clubs of the 2nd car repair plant and the confectionery factory "Marat" were placed in the church, and since 1989, the Gallery of Modern Art "Art Modern". To our time, there were no buildings in a plot belonging to the Church, except for the two-story alignment, which is now ranked with historical buildings. In the temple, the bell tower was broken to the lower tier, the head of the cross was demolished, the fence was destroyed, the additional windows were broken, the wall painting and the frescoes of the Belousovye brothers, who painted the Granovitu Chamber of the Moscow Kremlin. There was not a single iconostasis in the temple, and many icons were burned. The Iverskaya Church was subjected to real plunder: about a ton of silver (Reese, salary icons, liturgical utensils) was taken out of it.

In 1993, the church and its historical territory were returned to the Russian Orthodox Church. In 1994, church services began. Fortunately, now the temple is fully restored, the top tiers of the bell tower were prescribed, the head of the head was restored by paintings inside the church. Some of the renovated oil paintings are dated XVIII - XIX centuries. The church is returned to the appearance of 1792 - 1802 years. In addition to the temple miraculous icon of the Iverland of the Mother of God, the icon of the mother of the Mother of God is an inspired bowl, the icon of the healer of Panteleimon and the icon of the Holy Great Martyr George Victorious. One of the shrines of the temple is the packer with particles of the relics of Kiev-Pechersk and Optina Saints.

Today, the Iverskaya Church occupies a special place in the architecture of Zamoskvorechye, perfectly fit into the classic ensemble of buildings near the Church. The volumes of different parts seem to merge with each other: rotunda with refectory, refectory with bell tower. Only the upper cylindrical tier of the bell tower decorated with pilasters, its shiny spire is directed up. The harmonicity of the appearance of the church is achieved by barely noticeable details, such as the unity of the shape and proportions of the arches of the side portals and windows of the Rotunda. The walls of the temple are decorated with white-stone traction and eaves, emphasizing the volume of the structure. The inner space of the church, impressive with its vastness, is the result of uniting the refectory and adhesions by Arches. The refectory and side feeders with arched portals are driving the lower rotunda tier. The temple is a little lack of lightness and plasticity, but probably he was originally and was not designed for it. The church of the Iverk icon of the Mother of God does not have such outstanding individual characteristics, such as the sorrowing church or the Church of Nikola in puffs, but it can be called a bright example of Russian classicism.