Metochions of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra in Moscow, Moscow region and other cities: addresses, phone numbers, schedule

Moscow courtyard of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra

• Address: Russia, Moscow, 2nd Troitsky lane, 8, building 1, Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Troitskaya Sloboda
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In 1609, Tsar Vasily Shuisky transferred land on the banks of the Neglinnaya River to the Trinity-Sergius Lavra.
In 1638, there was the first mention of the Trinity Metochion and the wooden church of the Life-Giving Trinity attached to it. By 1696, the stone Church of the Life-Giving Trinity was erected. In 1767, the building of the Metropolitan Chambers was built according to the design of the architect Vasily Yakovlev. Inside is a house church in the name of the holy supreme apostles Peter and Paul. In 1812, the house church was reconsecrated in the name of St. Sergius of Radonezh with a chapel of the Iveron Icon of the Mother of God.

Since 1815, the metochion became the official residence of the Moscow metropolitans.

By 1915, the construction of a three-story “gate” building was completed on the site of the old entrance gate.

In 1922, the courtyard was abolished. The buildings were transferred to the renovationists; the governing bodies of the renovationist VCU were located in the former courtyard. On December 25, 1922, the All-Russian Congress of the VCU and members of the Moscow Diocesan Administration took place here.

After the Renovationists, a closed town of the NKVD was located on the territory of the compound, which existed until 1953. Then a kindergarten was located there.

In July 1992, the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Alexy II issued a decree on the resumption of the activities of the Trinity Metochion.

On July 24, 1993, on the day of memory of Equal-to-the-Apostles Olga, the first liturgy took place in the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity - in the Vladimir chapel. On May 1, 1994, on Easter, the first liturgy took place in the central chapel of the Trinity Church. In the same year, bells were installed on the bell tower of the temple.

In 1994, a church shop called “Trinity Book” was opened at the courtyard. Over time, it will become one of the largest Orthodox stores in the country. In the same year, the professional Choir of the Moscow Metochion of the Holy Trinity Sergius Lavra and an amateur women's choir were formed.

In 1995, the building of the Metropolitan Chambers was returned to the metochion.

On September 1, 1995, a Sunday school was opened at the courtyard.

In 1996, a book and music publishing house was established at the courtyard. In September of that year, a Sunday school choir was formed.

On April 15, 2000, Patriarch Alexy II performed the great consecration of the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity.

In December 2003, a pilgrimage was opened at the Compound, and a male amateur choir of the Compound was formed.

In 2006, an Orthodox online store was opened at the Compound - www.pravmagazin.ru. In the same year, the Choir School was opened and the Theater Studio was formed.

In 2009, bells were installed in the bell tower of the house church of the Metropolitan Chambers. On June 22, 2011, the first liturgy was celebrated in the restored house church in honor of the First Hierarchs of Moscow.

Metochion of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra in Moscow

This is a temple in the Trinity Settlement, consecrated in honor of the Life-Giving Trinity. You can get to it from the Tsvetnoy Boulevard metro station on foot, the walk will take about 10-15 minutes.

• Compound address: 129090, Moscow, 2nd Troitsky lane, 6a and 8–10v. Tel..
• Official website: https://blagoslovenie.su/

The first mention of the temple - then still wooden - dates back to the beginning of the 17th century. Since the beginning of the 19th century, the residence of the Moscow metropolitans was located here. After the revolution, the temple shared the fate of many shrines: it was closed and used for secular purposes: there was a closed town of the NKVD, and then a kindergarten. And only in the 90s the building was returned to believers.

At the moment, in the Moscow courtyard, pilgrims will find a large church shop “Trinity Book”, a Sunday school, music and book publishing houses, and a pilgrimage. Those who wish to learn church singing can participate in amateur women's and men's choirs, and children can participate in the Sunday School choir. There is a Choir School, a Youth Club and a Theater Studio. An Orthodox online store has been opened at the courtyard (its website is www.pravmagazin.ru). Lectures are periodically held on site.

Metochion schedule in Moscow

Divine services in the Moscow courtyard are held as in most churches: in the morning Liturgy at 8:00, and at 17:00 - vespers or all-night vigil. On Sunday there are two liturgies: at 7:00 and at 9:00. In the church you can order a prayer service and a memorial service, and on Saturdays baptism is performed (after an interview with the priest the day before).

Current state[edit]

In 1997, the rebuilt and heavily damaged building was again transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church. Currently, it has been restored as the Intercession Church of the All Saints Metochion of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra

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Since the resumption of services, Abbot David (Korobeinikov) and Archimandrite German (Chesnokov) have been working on the restoration of the temple.

Since 2004, Archpriest Sergius Sukhenko was appointed rector of the temple by Decree of Patriarch Alexy II.

At the Consecration of the All Saints Church on September 4, 2011, the holy relics of the Hieromartyr John (Pommer), Archbishop of Riga and Latvia, were placed in the Holy Altar of the All Saints Altar.

At the All Saints Compound there is a hotel with 40 beds, a small library, a Sunday school, and a refectory for pilgrims.

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Lavra courtyard in the Moscow region

Several Lavra farmsteads are located nearby - in the city of Sergiev Posad and in the village of Radonezh. This

• Church of St. Mary Magdalene in the village of Loza (Moscow region, Sergiev Posad, village of Loza. Tel. (496) 548-96-50);
• Pyatnitskoe courtyard on Podol, address: 141300, Moscow region, Sergiev Posad. Tel.; website of the courtyard - www.hramparaskevy.ru; it has three church schools: singing, embroidery for girls and a Sunday school;
• Paraklit courtyard in the village of Smena Address: Moscow region, Sergiev Posad, pos. Change;
• Blagoveshchenkoye Compound; Address: Sergiev Posad district, village. Annunciation. (from 9:30 to 17:00) Website: blagoveshenie-stsl.ru
• Chernigov Skete Address: 141300, Moscow region, Sergiev Posad, st. Gethsemane Ponds, 1. Tel. +7 (496) 540-32-68. Compound website: skit-chernigovsky.ru
• All Saints Compound. Address: 141300, Moscow region, Sergiev Posad, Northern deadlock, no. 12. Tel. +7 (496) 540-54-89. On the territory there is a Sunday school, a library, a refectory and a small hotel for pilgrims, tel. +7 (964) 710-78-46.
• The temple in honor of the appearance of the Mother of God to St. Sergius of Radonezh on the territory of a boarding school for deaf-blind children takes care of these seriously ill children and those adults who strive to help them. Address: Moscow region, Sergiev Posad, st. Pogranichnaya, 20A. E-mail Tel./fax, email. Theophylact.
• Sergievsky monastery lives according to a strict monastic canon; divine services occupy almost the entire night and a significant part of the day. Address: 141300 Moscow region, Sergiev Posad district, village. Annunciation. Tel.,. From Sergiev Posad you can get here by bus No. 10.
• The Deulinsky metochion of the Troiye-Sergius Lavra is still being restored, so services are held only on Sundays and holidays. Address: 141337, Moscow region, Sergiev Posad district, village. Deulino. Tel., +7 (916) 350-03-39.
• Radonezh Compound (Moscow region, Sergiev Posad district, Radonezh village; email; website https://radonezh-stsl.ru, mobile phone: (916) 700 68 08, (provides spiritual assistance to patients with drug addiction and alcoholism ),
• Temple in honor of the Iveron Icon of the Mother of God in the city of Peresvet (Moscow region, Sergiev Posad district, Peresvet, Pionerskaya str., 4/23. Tel.) (it operates a children's theater, a military-patriotic club and a service mercy).
• In the village of Saburovo, Moscow region, there is the Pokrovsky monastery. Address: Moscow region, Saburovo village. Tel.. Here before, before the revolution, the monks prepared fish for the Lavra. The monastery was restored in the 90s. Now there are divine services there, and if you wish, you can get to Podvorye from the Khotkovo railway station by bus to the Tsarevskie stop, then walk about 2 km.

History[edit]

The temple was built with the diligence of parishioners of three surrounding churches: Resurrection, Ilyinskaya and Rozhdestvenskaya. Peasant G.A. showed particular zeal in construction. Lomov. In July 1840, a chapel in honor of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary was added to the church. It was consecrated by the abbot of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, Rev. Anthony of Radonezh (Medvedev).

The architectural style of the single-domed church building with a refectory and bell tower is Empire style. According to the testimony of modern historian K.A. Filimonov, “the outer facades of the church were plastered and painted with oil paint, the metal roofs of the church were painted red with verdigris, and the onion dome was painted with blue oil paint and decorated with twenty-seven gilded stars. The dome that crowned the bell tower probably had the same appearance. The third dome, above the altar, was completely gilded. Inside, the walls of the church were decorated with artificial marble, decorated with marble paintings and paintings. The paintings, as one can confidently assume, were executed in the 1870s during the renovation of the church by a local icon painter, former minister of the Lavra I.M. Malyshev."

According to legend, the All Saints Church stands on the spot where on May 17, 1746, during a great fire in the Lavra and in the settlements, they carried out the relics of St. Sergius of Radonezh to preserve them. The area northeast of the Lavra at that time was free and easily communicated with the monastery through the dam of the Konyushenny Pond and the Kalichya Gate. The fire devastated the southern part and center of Posad, along with the southern half of the monastery. In memory of the fire of 1746, the Lavra on fire was depicted on one of the walls of the church.

In the book of church historian E.E. Golubinsky “Reverend Sergius of Radonezh and the Trinity Lavra created by him,” published by him in 1892, states that, unlike other cemetery churches in Sergiev Posad, “the church of the Kokuevsky cemetery has its own clergy” (these are priests, deacons, psalm-readers, etc.) According Filimonov, the clergy of the church consisted of two people living in two church houses, on church land belonging to the Resurrection Church.”

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the rector of All Saints Church was a graduate of Bethany Seminary, priest Sergei Pikunov, who served here until the end of his life. It is also known for certain that in 1900 he taught the Law of God at a women's two-year city school. After the revolution of 1917, persecution of faith began. The authorities closed and took away the buildings of temples and monasteries from the Church.

After being expelled from the Lavra, the Trinity monks began to attend the Church of All Saints. The last abbot of the pre-revolutionary Lavra, the Venerable Martyr Kronid (Lyubimov), who settled on Shtatnaya, also prayed here.

At the All Saints (Kokuevskoye) cemetery, he often came to the grave of the last elder of the Smolensk Zosimova Hermitage, Hieroschemamonk Alexy Zosimovsky.

In the 1930s, services were performed in a modest cemetery church by Archimandrite Mauritius (Poletaev), the future holy martyr. In 1937, he was shot in Karlag, Karaganda, for creating a group that, under his leadership, held worship services in the camp. Together with him, the elder of the All Saints Church V.E. was executed on the same day. Kondratyev for the fact that he, being the “right hand” of the archimandrite, distributed manuscripts from the Gospel and icons to the camp inmates.

The Church of All Saints was the last place of service in Sergiev Posad of Archpriest Dimitry Bayanov. Coming from the nobility, a former opera singer and church composer, Fr. Dmitry was shot at the Butovo training ground near Moscow.

Bayanov moved to the All Saints Church in 1935 after the renovationists captured the Church of Peter and Paul. And he became the last rector of this church. In the fall of 1938, the temple at the Kukuevsky cemetery was closed.

Kukuevskoye (formerly All Saints) Cemetery

Today, the former Kukuevskoye, and previously the All Saints Cemetery, is more often called the Birch Grove. It is still surrounded by a low earthen rampart, which is well preserved from the Civil Village side. Huge old trees grow along the rampart - this is how the entire churchyard was previously bordered. Probably, some young residents of the city, walking here with families and groups, do not even notice the burial mounds that have almost been leveled to the ground. But we must not forget that this is not a very old cemetery, closed before the Great Patriotic War. According to legend, the beginning of the churchyard was laid by the distant events of the Polish-Lithuanian invasion of the 17th century. Then, after the siege of the monastery was lifted, the entire surrounding area was strewn with corpses that had to be buried. Subsequently, some of the remains were transferred to the Nikolskoye cemetery. At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the Kukuevsky churchyard became an honorable burial place for townspeople.

Before the 1917 revolution, the cemetery at the All Saints Church was divided into three parts. The area of ​​the graveyard, adjacent to the church and accounting for approximately a fifth of the total territory, was intended for the burial of monks and clergy. It was surrounded by a brick wall with 12 towers (4 large and 8 small), topped with domes with weather vanes in the form of seraphim. In the fence there were the Holy Gates and above them there was a small tower with an icon case in which there was an icon of the Mother of God. The composition was crowned with an onion dome and a cross. To the north of the temple there was a so-called “secular cemetery”, where citizens of the city were buried. Above its entrance there was also a gate with the inscription: “May everyone buried here rest in peace.” In 1871, the Lavra acquired two more acres of land south of the church for the burial of pilgrims who died in the monastery's charitable institutions. This part began to be called the “nameless cemetery.”

The burial places of the most famous people were usually located near the temple. Thus, in 1928, the elder of the Smolensk Zosimova Hermitage, Alexy the Recluse, was buried near the altar wall of the All Saints Church. This elder, famous throughout Russia (in the world, Fedor Alekseevich Solovyov), was elected a member of the All-Russian Local Council in 1917. And he was given the honorable right in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior to draw the lot that determined the election of Metropolitan Tikhon Bellavin of Moscow to the Moscow Patriarchal throne. In recent years, the elder lived in Sergiev Posad. He died on September 19, 1928 at the age of 83. A lot of people came to the funeral. The coffin was carried in their arms from the house to the [Church of the Resurrection of Christ with the chapel of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul (Sergiev Posad) Peter and Paul Church], then from the church to the Kukuevskoye cemetery. It was raining. Wet people who had not eaten all day walked through the deep mud behind the coffin, sang and read prayers. 40 priests gathered for the funeral service for the elder - an extraordinary phenomenon, especially in those terrible years. A few years later, almost all of them were repressed, many were shot or died in camps. In 1953, the remains of Elder Alexy were transferred to the Old (Northern) cemetery of Sergiev Posad (then Zagorsk), to the Benevolensky family grave. This was done thanks to S.M. Boskin. And in 1994, a second reburial took place. The elder’s remains were placed in a new coffin and transported to Zosimova Hermitage, which then began to be reborn.

Also buried at the All Saints Cemetery are: ordinary professor of the Moscow Theological Academy in the department of Liturgics and Church Archeology, member of the Board of the Academy, doctor of church history and father of ten children Alexander Petrovich Golubtsov (1840-1911); journalist and poet, teacher of Russian literature and collector of antiquities, editor of the Russian Review Anatoly Alexandrovich Alexandrov (1861-1930); the famous miniaturist carver and his family Ivan Semenovich Khrustachev, who presented the Tsar with the icon he made “The Blessing of Prince Dmitry Donskoy for the Battle of Mamai by St. Sergius of Radonezh”; artist, noblewoman by birth Ekaterina Fedorovna Tsvetaeva; artist, sister of Fr. Pavel Florensky Raisa Alexandrovna Florenskaya; the chief caretaker and one of the founders of forestry, forester Nikolai Nikolaevich Kolesnikov, who planted several birch groves and cedars in Semkhoz on the shore of the Kopany Pond and many other trees.

Officially, the churchyard was closed in 1935 “in connection with the proposed project of using the Kukuevsky cemetery in the future to organize a park. Most likely, the war prevented the implementation of this blasphemous plan. The burials continued for some time. The most recent graves appeared on the side of the Civil Village.

Lavra courtyards in other cities

• The St. Petersburg Compound (address: 193167, Fontanka embankment, 44) was once located on the embankment of the Fontanka River. It was opened by order of Peter the Great and existed in the city on the Neva until the 20s of the last century. The buildings of the courtyard were used as residential buildings, and then they were given away, mutilated beyond recognition, for the city library, from which the Lavra is now trying to get them back - so far almost unsuccessfully.
• In Gelendzhik the Lavra Compound is located at the address: Divnomorskoe, st. Kirova, 13. Phone: +7 (86141) 6-36-80. This is a working temple.
• Another farmstead in the city of Gelendzhik can be found at the address: 353466, Krasnodar region, Gelendzhik, Tonkiy Mys, st. Chernigovskaya, 1. Phones: +7 (86141) 280-88, +7-953-074-11-09. E-mail Temple website: www.mihaylovskiy.prihod.ru
• On Kulikovo Field you can find another temple, which is the Compound of the Lavra. This is a temple in the name of Sergius of Radonezh on the Red Hill of the Kulikovo Field, it is located at the address Tula region, Kurkinsky district, near the village of Ivanovka; tel..
• The Holy Dormition women's skete-monastery has now been restored after destruction in Soviet times. Now there are 20 nuns there. Compound address: 301740, Tula region, Kimovsky district, village. Epifan, st. Malaya Donskaya, 3. Tel. +7(48735) 7-25-30, +7 (910) 946-50-42.
• The Trinity-Sergius Varnitsky Monastery in Rostov the Great is a beautiful place, covered in ancient glory. His address: 152120, Yaroslavl region, Rostov the Great, Varnitsy village (p/o village Ishnya). Tel. pilgrimage service: +7-964-167-04-10, +7-905-633-04-89, +7 (48536) 9-21-79 (+fax). Email: [email protected] ; Varnitsa gymnasium - +7-960-531-61-36 (teacher on duty). E-mail Website: https://varnicy.ru/. From Rostov the Great you can get to the monastery by bus No. 108.
• The Vladimir courtyard has just been restored, but it is still possible to get to it only by personal vehicle. Address: 602332 Vladimir region, Selivanovsky district, Tuchkovo village, 30. Telephones, +7 (910) 674-79-77.
• And also the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity - the Lavra's courtyard - is now in Antarctica ! Address: Antarctica, Russian Bellingshausen station.

Check the exact details: schedule, prices, etc. on the official website of the courtyard or by phone. The data is current at the time of writing.