in Moscow and the Moscow region, there are several temples, consecrated in honor of Saints Cosmas and Damian disinterested.For example, to find one of them, you can go to Khimki.Cosmas and Damian Church is also in the very center - a place called Shubin, which is near Tverskaya Street.Another is located on the street Maroseyka.That's about it, and we will cover in this article.
history of the old church building
Kosmodemyanovskogo temple was built in 1793 on the site of the former church.So, how many years in this place is the Orthodox parish, hard to say.It is only known that he was at the beginning of the seventeenth century, that is, in the 1600s.Also, there is evidence that the first house was made of stone and had two of the throne, and a chapel in honor of Cosmas and Damian was a minor, and the main altar of the church was consecrated in honor of St. Nicholas.By the beginning of the eighteenth century, and perhaps a little earlier, the temple Cosmas and Damian Maroseika found on the second tier, where the altar was arranged in honor of Our Lady of Kazan.Containing the church princess Evdokia Kurakin until the end of the eighteenth century did not pass to the parish software.
new temple
need to restructure the church building was caused by dilapidated buildings, to worship which became unsafe.Therefore, the parish council decided to demolish the old building and build a new, a petition was filed in 1790 by the then ruling bishop of the Metropolitan of Moscow - Metropolitan Platon.
modern temple Cosmas and Damian on Maroseyka - this is the newest temple.Moreover, its central chapel was consecrated in honor of the Savior, healer relaxed.But it happened only in 1803.And the first consecration took place in 1793, when the construction work was completed south chapel in honor of St. Nicholas.North Kosmodemyanovsky chapel was consecrated in 1795.
temple Cosmas and Damian on Maroseyka after 1812
During ruinous intervention of the French army in Moscow in 1812, the church was badly damaged.Much of its beauty has been lost, and had to rebuild the church for many years.
Temple in XX-XXI centuries
temple Cosmas and Damian on Maroseyka entered the twentieth century the rich and the beauty of the building.But he again waited ruin, but this time not at the hands of foreign invaders, and the Soviet government.With the change of power in Russia's religious policy changed dramatically, and it has touched all the churches in the country, including the Temple of Cosmas and Damian.Moscow, atheistic fervor gripped the Communists lost many beautiful architectural monuments.Kosmodemyanovskuyu Church also was ordered to blow up, but it was not to happen.As a result, the building of the temple played the role of the archive, the club, the educational institution, or even the warehouse.
In the 60s several buildings still the parish was demolished to make way for the construction of a large administrative building.At the same time it began and the gradual restoration of the building.It has even been restored to the external decoration of the church, including a gold-plated cross on the dome.Inside, however, the temple was still a non-church building.In addition, frequent alterations of its space, he came to the emergency condition.
Finally, in the summer of 1993 by the Moscow government building back into the hands of the faithful of the Orthodox community of Russian Orthodox Church.And in the autumn of the same year it was made first, since the 30s, the liturgy in the aisles.It happened on November 14, that is, on the feast of Cosmas and Damian.A little later began to carry out the service in the main chapel, while restoration work continues even to this day.
