Known in the capital street - Bolshaya Ordynka - rightfully called the place of the golden domes.Among the believers is especially venerated Church of "Joy of All Who Sorrow."Namolennoe This place was first mentioned in chronicles in 1571.While the church was known under a different name, as the Church of Varlaam Khutynsky.According to the assumptions of historians, it was erected in 1523 during the time of Metropolitan Varlaam in the name of his heavenly patron and protector.In 1625 the consecration of priests held here the throne in the name of the Transfiguration.Currently, it is the high altar of the church of the Sorrowful.
Temple in Ordynka "Joy of All Who Sorrow" in 1683/85's was built in stone.After a few years of its walls was a miracle, one of the parishioners received a complete healing of the image of Our Lady.According to tradition, the sister of Patriarch Joachim experienced severe suffering from a painful wound in his side.She cried out in prayer for help.One day before the Euphemia donёssya mysterious voice, indicating that it should serve sanctification of waters prayer before the icon of the Heavenly Queen in the Transfiguration church.The woman realized that she heard the call of the Vsezastupnitsy.She performed all instructions and was healed.Since then, the icon is known as a miraculous, and to this day revered image of all Orthodox believers of the country.
Temple in Ordynka "Joy of All Who Sorrow" in 1922 during the seizure of church property has been ruined.All the ornaments and utensils were expropriated (more than 65 kg of gold and silver).In 1933 it was closed, the Bolsheviks removed the bell, but the interior remains almost intact.
During World War II the temple on Ordynka "Joy of All Who Sorrow" was the vaults of the Tretyakov Gallery.In 1948 it was reopened for worship.
Architecture
Church "All the Afflicted" is of particular interest because of its architectural solutions.Its bell tower has a rare form.The building is built in the form of a cylindrical rotunda with windows, semicircular arches and two-column Ionic porticos.Inside are 12 columns that underpin small drum with a dome in the form of a hemisphere and spherical head.A characteristic feature is the placement of interior decoration candlesticks.They are at the top, the ministers raised by a portable wooden staircase to light a candle.
Image
Icon "All the Afflicted" - it's an amazing phenomenon in the history of iconography.There is plenty of documentary evidence of the miraculous deeds of this image.The list of such documents almost the longest in the history of Orthodoxy.
icons and lists "All the Afflicted": The value in the Orthodox faith
«All the Afflicted" - the first line of one of their stichera.Even the name of this image was the fact that he has become a different prevalence in our country.In addition to the first icon, located in the Moscow church, there are about two dozen of locally and miraculous lists.
soul of Russian man is very close and understandable to the hidden meaning in the name of the icon.In images of "All the Afflicted" value is disclosed as follows: it is reckless hope of the believer in the Most Pure Virgin Mary, throughout hurrying alleviate sorrow, to comfort, to save people from affliction and suffering, to the sick healed and naked attire ...
Iconography
The icon depictsHail Mary full-length, with a baby on the hand or not.Vsezastupnitsu glow surrounds mandroly.This is a special nimbus oval, elongated in the vertical direction.Virgin surrounded by angels in the clouds depicted New Testament Trinity and the Lord of hosts.
This principle iconography emerged in Russia in the seventeenth century under the influence of Western European traditions.The iconography of the image could not get a single composition completed and submitted to the churches in a variety of options.The most famous are considered to be two types of icons - a baby, as in a temple in Ordynka, and without it.
special feature icons is that together with the Mother of God on it portrayed people tormented by sorrows and illnesses, and the angels who perform good deeds on behalf Vsespasitelnitsy.
Icon "All the Afflicted" with groshikami
image became famous in St. Petersburg in 1888, when the chapel where it is housed, was struck by lightning.Icon has remained whole, it just stuck copper penny (groshiki).Later on this place was built the temple.The famous icon "All the Afflicted" with groshikami is there to this day.
How to pray the Queen of Heaven
the miraculous icon "All the Afflicted" prayer should ascend with a pure heart and thoughts.Asking for help can be intercessor all needy, sick people, mothers with children waiting for the war, the whole family, where disaster struck.
Prayer Blessed Virgin
"Queen preblagaya, my hope, Mother of God, Mediatrix orphaned and strange Patron! Afflicted, offended Predstatelnitse! Behold my misfortune, behold my sorrow: help me feeble servant of God (name). Insult my resolve by the willher. In trust your help. Only you, Mother of God, asking for help! Amen. "
Clerics advise as often as possible to apply to the image of "The Joy of All Who Sorrow", the prayer can be delivered in your own words, the main thing - honesty and true faith parishioner.
Lists of the icon of the Heavenly Queen
When in 1711 King Peter I, along with approximate moved to St. Petersburg, he puts his sister in the new palace church with a list of icons Vsezastupnitsy.Later, in the name of the Virgin in the northern capital was rebuilt a temple that had the period of the reign of Elizabeth the First.
How and when to visit the temple
Church is located in Moscow, Bolshaya Ordynka, 20. To get to the place can be on the subway to the station "Tretyakov", "Novokuznetskaya".Temple on Ordynka "Joy of All Who Sorrow" is available for visits every day from 7.30 am to 20.00 pm.
Instead completion
One of the oldest and most famous temples of the capital is always ready to take parishioners.Access to the miraculous icon is always open, but may have to defend a small queue.
