City Moroni Roman Empire - the birthplace of the Holy Great Martyr Paraskeva, who lived there in the III century.Born in a family of Christians Paraskeva whole heart was devoted to the religion, she went out of her martyrdom, and will forever remain in the memory of Christians.In her honor built temples and chapels.
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considered the patroness of agricultural workers.Industrialists, traders and travelers also consider themselves to be under its care and concern.In pre-revolutionary Russia was not a single trading area where there was a temple to Saint Paraskeva, in Moscow alone there were 4. Name Friday was given to her parents in memory of the day of the crucifixion of Christ.Paraskeva translated from Greek means "the eve of the holiday."The Orthodox Church of the Great Remembrance Day falls on the 28th of October.On this day bring to the altar for the consecration of the fruits and store them until the next harvest, thus ensuring its subsequent abundance.This holy pray like the harvest and on the prevention of loss of cattle.
In humans it is able to heal serious illnesses - and emotional, and physical.In addition, the centuries-old experience contributed to the formation of the tradition of asking the girls at the holy assist in the speedy and successful marriage.Therefore, every temple Great Paraskeva popular.On the holy icons are always displayed with a cross in the hands of the cloak and red.She was always strict and harsh, and paintings related to the Passion of Christ, it is a Good Friday, the day of Christ's crucifixion.The Orthodox her intertwined with Mokosh pagan deity, is also patron of the fields and cattle, which is also dedicated to Friday.
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Paraskeva Church in Butovo - one of the many religious sites dedicated to this martyr, in Moscow.The church has a rich history that began over three hundred years before the rise around the vast areas of North Butovo.From XVII century Russia there was the concept of "small village", which is a very small town, just a few yards.But its structure necessarily had to include a chapel.So hamlet five yards - 3 and 2 bobylskih peasant, that is, having no land holdings and it Butovo, who controlled the clerk Samoilov.It arose in the place of the burnt down villages Shcherbatov landlords who owned these lands from the XV century.
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Their estate was a wooden church, which also burned down during the Polish-Lithuanian invasion - in 1612.Decades later, namely in 1694, there was consecrated a new stone church built in the new Russian style by the architect of the Annunciation.Paraskeva Church in Butovo was small, and in the XVIII century it was attached to the chapel of the Nativity of the Virgin.Now there could be up to 400 worshipers.In 1903-1904 the temple was updated.Nearby, in the village of "Znamenskoye Cages" estate of Prince Trubetskoy, too, it was a church, but it has not survived.Together, the two places of worship is united in one parish, then disconnected.
The name of the temple Paraskeva in Butovo received from the roadside chapels, many of which from ancient times was called in honor of the saint, and it was popular in Russia back in the pre-Mongol period.How else - she patronized travelers and traders!Its icon in the glassed-in Kyoto, a kind of chapel, is in our time outside of the temple.The church is very beautiful.She, along with temples dedicated to this saint, erected in the ancient Chernigov and Smolensk and survived to this day, is a monument of architecture.The tomb of the last abbot Nicholas Epiphany is located near the altar, on the east side.
Years of hard times on the temple Paraskeva in Butovo hit all the hardships of the 30s, when the destroyed churches and their ministers.It was closed, desecrated and looted.Then there were the many years of storage, the sewing workshops, and later the temple and burned at all.Ruined, without windows, doors and the roof, it was restored in the 90s by the community, which has been transferred, and in 1998 the church was consecrated Patriarch of Moscow.Believers brought icons on the donations were ordered new ones.When there was an enormous residential district Northern Butovo, in this place there were several villages - Kiowa, Josef Bican, Katchalov.Therefore, the church in Butovo Friday has another name, so to speak, synonymous - the temple Paraskeva in Kachalov.
It is very popular among the local population, but small.Therefore, in the area it planned to build a large new religious building, named in honor of the Prophet Elijah.
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temple elders among the people that were in the past and a sea captain and the military, and a children's doctor.Maybe it affects the active church life of the church.If it has a Sunday school, where the students along with the study of religion take part in sports competitions.Temple provides effective assistance to orphanages, engaged in rehabilitation of alcoholics and drug addicts.
Among the relics of the temple there are such rarities as an icon of Equal to the Apostles Nina (Georgian saint), the icon of the Mother of God "Inexhaustible Chalice", an icon of Seraphim of Swarovski.
