the North Urals there are wondrous beauty of the temple Maximus the Confessor (Krasnoturyinsk).It is a beautiful building with five domes are often compared with the celestial ship, and ran up its golden domes.He consecrated in honor of the theologian and philosopher who lived in the VI-VII centuries, first in the Byzantine Empire and then in Colchis.The voices of the bells of the church to its sonorous and powerful singing convene parishioners at the service.Like many churches in our country, he knew heyday, tasted difficult times and, finally, a period of revival.But first things first.
Wooden cemetery church
in the XVIII century, these lands were mining mines based merchant Maxim Pohodyashinym.Over time, his son, wanting to perpetuate the memory of his father, built in the local cemetery wooden church, which was consecrated in 1787 in honor of St. Maximus the Confessor - the heavenly patron of the father.From the cemetery church gradually evolved into a parish and served God and the people as long as in 1829 it was destroyed by fire.
a result of this disaster, local residents were practically no spiritual nourishment.In 1842, the superior mines, MIProtasov wrote in higher government authorities about their concerns at the moral condition of the local residents.This is not surprising - a significant percentage of them were former convicts, after long years spent in prison, settled in the surrounding villages.Out of this situation Protasov seen in the construction of a large stone church on the site of the burnt church, a visit which will benefit former convicts.
Start of construction of the stone church
Two years later, after all the bureaucratic delays, was finally laid temple Maximus the Confessor.Krasnoturinsk today a small town, and in those days was a just settlement center formed by two mining plants - Goroblagodatsky and theological.
Its distance from the capital, was one of the reasons that slow down the pace of construction.Only the personal intervention of the president of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, the Duke of Leuchtenberg, gave impetus to the work.
been identified the main contractor.He became a merchant of the third guild Yakovlev.But directly supervised the work of serfs Nikander Truhin.With no education and relying only on experience, ingenuity and common sense, the People's Nugget erected temple, which during the rebellion could not destroy even explosives - was a solid masonry.Powered by conscience, to know that God try.Nahalturish - in the world to have to answer.The Church of St. Maximus the Confessor built in the Byzantine style by architect A. Delyusto.Working capital
masters
And in the capital, meanwhile, created the iconostasis for the future of the cathedral.The artist and architect Alexander Maksimov G. Ponomarev with cutter I. Vladimirov started its manufacturing.The works were carried out on the previously approved project, however performers remained wide open space for creativity.Finally finished in 1851, and other icons of the iconostasis arrived in the Urals.The next year, temple Maximus the Confessor in Krasnoturinsk was solemnly consecrated.
Icons for the church written by St. Petersburg artist A. Maximov.It is unfair perception among residents of the view accessories authorship Italian masters.Such confusion is caused by the fact that Maximov, being a disciple of the famous K. Bryullov, for thirteen years he lived and worked with his teacher in Italy.It belongs to the same brush and the altarpiece of the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
closed churches in the Soviet era
Over the years, the temple was the center of religious life Turinskih mines.His educational and educational work continued until 1934.The decision of the local village council temple Maximus the Confessor (Krasnoturinsk) was closed.
After long and unsuccessful attempts to blow up the building, it was decided to transfer its economic bodies to use at their discretion.Initially, there was a warehouse of the NKVD, and later it was rebuilt and opened a cinema.
Recovery temple
Only in 1995 the decision of the City Council temple Maximus the Confessor (Krasnoturinsk) was returned to the congregation.Despite the inconveniences associated with the work of reconstruction and rehabilitation, there immediately began the service.Choir, created by the parishioners, thanks to the high professionalism of its leader - mother Tatiana, immediately began to attract attention to the coherence and beauty of sound.
more than half a century has passed since the first stone was laid in the foundation of the temple.They are instead the whole epoch in the life of the country.Since ancient times, everything around has changed beyond recognition.But, according to the Apostle Paul, God at all times is the same as His holy temple, having gone through hard times, still rises to the sky its dome.And just like many years ago, calling the faithful to their temple bell ringing Maximus the Confessor (Krasnoturinsk).
