Odessa - traditionally multi-religious city.It always lived together people professing different religious beliefs.But the majority of the people of South Palmyra - the Orthodox.Many temples are decorated with sung by Leonid Utesov city.Orthodox inhabiting zhilmassiv Tairova often, especially on holy days, visit the Iberian monastery.Odessa, as sung in the famous song, is very high.This drive and Moldavian, and Siltings and from the center and from Slobodka, and the village Kotovsky.The atmosphere in the monastery particular, blissful, and even a long road does not become an obstacle for the faithful who want to join it.
history of the monastery
fall of 1998, the Metropolitan Odessa and Izmail Agafangel hallowed throne future monastery.Not far from the runways of the airport and airfield School was founded Holy Iveron Monastery.Odessa has long waited for this day: the fact that the site chosen for the construction of a special meaning.Once, shortly after the founding of the city, in the XVIII century, there was already a hermitage of St. Michael, which flows next to the stream, a tributary of the 10th station of Big Fountain in the sea.By the end of the 1800s the monastery came into disrepair, was left a small church that gave spiritual guidance to residents nearby hamlet settlements.New life this church gained after opening the Aero Club of Odessa, one of the first in the Russian Empire.The pilots of the new century, because of the proximity to the sky and the special dangers of its fisheries, decided to save the church, near the airfield, named School.The decision on the establishment of the squadron and the allotted plot took Emperor Nicholas II, who later repeatedly visited St. Michael's Church.One of the initiators of the preservation of the temple was a famous pilot SI Utochkin.That's where in almost a century later, was based Iver Monastery.Odessa values its history and remember the heroes who brought fame to the city.
Our Lady
Church, standing near the airfield, unfortunately, has not been preserved, it was destroyed during the rebellion.In the holy place Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the spring of 1998 he decided to build a monastery, which gave the name of the miraculous icon of the Iberian Mother of God, or rather its exact list, 350 years ago, delivered to Moscow.In late October, the first dome was erected beneath the Metropolitan Agafangel served liturgy.Less than a year near the Temple scored the source of healing water.In 2000, specially for the growing by leaps and bounds of the monastery on Mount Athos created a precise list of miraculous icon, decorated the Iberian monastery.Odessa has found another shrine.Today, she is in a small wooden chapel, surrounded by a beautiful garden.
worldly affairs
Abode strong God's grace, but her earthly prosperity, besides prayer diligence requires quite worldly rites.Through the efforts of her brother and governor of Archimandrite Diodorus economic activity successfully accompanied the spiritual care of a large flock.At the monastery there are many necessary and charitable institutions, promoting its prosperity and further development.Among them comfortable hotel designed for pilgrims, apiary, candle production, joiner's shop, sewing workshop.There are even own poultry yard that provides meals and guests of the monastery brethren in the days when eating is permitted fasting foods.Skilled craftsmen paint icons, which, along with other utensils are sold in the church shop.As technology is baked unleavened bread, and special.
to the prosperity of the cloister are of considerable importance and donations that receives Holy Iver Monastery.Odessa in the person of entrepreneurs and ordinary citizens willing to sacrifice money for the prosperity of the Christian faith.The construction of the Temple of St. Seraphim of Sarov efforts of builders and donors will soon be completed.
Monastery - children
educating the younger generation of Orthodox citizens are given a lot of attention.Children can attend Sunday school, hospitably opens its doors to the public immediately after the liturgy, in the afternoon.Teachers teach a lot: in addition to the important Orthodox knowledge obtained in the classroom of the Law of God, singing, liturgy and Church history, the children are attached to the world of beauty.Classes are varied, they include drawing courses, crafts, sculpture.Acts and logopaedic office.Children can get the initial technical expertise in model airplane circle.The traditions of the first Russian aviators store and heirs of Michael pilot's temple, which stands on the site of the Iberian monastery.Odessa - a city, taking care of their future and remembering the past.
