Church of the Icon of the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow” on Ordynka, Moscow

Moscow church in honor of the icon of the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow” (Transfiguration of the Savior) on Bolshaya Ordynka
(Moskvoretsk deanery of the Moscow city diocese)

• Thrones: Transfiguration of the Lord (main), chapels of the icon of the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow” and St. Varlaam of Khutyn
• Address: Russia, 119017, Moscow, st. Bolshaya Ordynka, 20
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• Official site:
• On the map: Yandex.Map, Google map

The first mention of the temple of St.
Varlaam Khutynsky “in Ordyntsy” dates back to the 1570s. In the XIV century. here was the road leading to the Golden Horde. In addition, Russian captives ransomed from the Mongol conquerors were called “Horde”. There is an assumption that the area where the temple stands was given to them to build houses. In 1683-1685. In place of the wooden one, a stone Church of the Transfiguration was built. In 1688, the glorification of the icon of the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow” kept there, which was especially revered by the persons of the reigning house, took place.

Already in 1713, in the Horde Transfiguration Church, an antimension was issued for the throne in honor of this icon, and in 1770 the chapel was updated with a donation from G. Lyubovnikova - many people joyfully and often donated funds for the improvement of this church.

In 1783, a Zamoskvorechye merchant named Dolgov, who had a house on Bolshaya Ordynka right opposite the church, donated a lot of money for its reconstruction and ordered this work from his famous relative, architect Vasily Bazhenov.

The icons for the iconostasis were painted in 1788 by Hieromonk Boniface from the Sarov Hermitage.

On October 24, 1790, the Sorrow Chapel was consecrated by Metropolitan Platon (Levshin).

During the Moscow fire of 1812, the temple was badly damaged and in 1831-1836.
was almost rebuilt by the architect O.I. Bove, who, however, preserved the surviving fragments of the Bazhenov building. Bove drew up a drawing of the cast-iron floor slabs that decorated the temple; and images of archangels and St. Nicholas in the iconostasis are by the famous V.L. Borovikovsky. In September 1836, the new Empire-style rotunda church was re-consecrated to St. Filaret. This is evidenced by the memorial date under the cross of the temple. The miraculous icon “Joy of All Who Sorrow” is located in the left aisle. One beautiful detail, unusual for Moscow churches, is that the candlesticks are located at the top, like small chandeliers, and in order to light a candle, you need to climb portable wooden ladders.

In the early 1930s, the temple was closed, the bells were torn off and destroyed, but the ancient interior was well preserved, since the temple housed the Tretyakov Gallery storeroom and the museum staff tried to do everything to preserve the decoration of this priceless monument of architecture and art.

The Church on Bolshaya Ordynka became one of the first Moscow churches opened in the capital after the restoration of the Patriarchate - in 1948. In those years, the day of glorification of the icon, October 24 / November 6, was celebrated with particular solemnity, and every Sunday evening a prayer service was held in the church with the reading of the akathist.

In 1961, residents of an elite house in the nearby Lavrushinsky Lane demanded that the bells be removed - the ringing of the bells was disturbing the writers who lived there from sleeping and working. The bells were again removed and moved inside the temple.

The famous church choir of regent N.V. Matveev was also created here. In the 1960s, his recordings were even released on records by the Moscow Patriarchate.

At the temple there is a Center for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Non-Traditional Religions, a Reception Center for helping people suffering from drug addiction and alcoholism, a library, Sunday schools for children and adults, gold embroidery, drawing, theater, church singing and icon painting clubs.

With the blessing of Patriarch Alexy II, an annual ceremony is held to join the Russian Orthodox Church for people who, for one reason or another, have fallen away from it. The rite of joining is held twice a year (usually on Lazarus Saturday and November 19, the day of remembrance of St. Varlaam of Khutyn).

Parishioners of the church provide all possible assistance in caring for sick, underdeveloped children and the elderly at psychoneurological dispensary No. 20 and boarding house No. 6 for elderly labor veterans in Moscow.

Rector of the church

Grigory Valerievich Alfeev was born on July 24, 1966.
The boy received his secondary education at the Moscow Music School named after. Gnesins, majoring in violin and composition. Here he became acquainted with znamenny singing and hook recording of a melody. At the age of eleven, the boy underwent the rite of baptism. From the age of 15, Gregory served as a reader in the Church of the Resurrection of the Word, and then as a subdeacon under Metropolitan Pitirim of Volokolamsk and Yuryevsk.

After school, the young man enters the Moscow Conservatory, the composition department. Service in the Soviet Army interrupts education for two years. In January 1987, the young man left his studies and entered obedience at the Vilna Monastery of the Holy Spirit. Six months later he was tonsured into monasticism.

From 1988 to 1990, the future metropolitan served as a priest in the churches of the Vilna and Lithuanian diocese. In 1990 he became rector of the Kaunas Cathedral of the Annunciation. As an elected delegate, he took part in the Local Council of the Russian Church, which elected Alexy II to the patriarchal throne.

In January 1991, Soviet troops, brought into Lithuania by Gorbachev, captured the Vilnius television center, which resulted in casualties. The next military target was Kaunas. Hilarion appears on television and calls on soldiers not to shoot at unarmed people. Criminal bloodshed was prevented.

In 1989, Hilarion graduated in absentia from the Moscow Theological Seminary, and two years later from the Theological Academy. And two years later, the young priest graduated from graduate school at the academy. From that moment on, a lot of time was devoted to teaching church disciplines:

• Homiletics - rules for composing a sermon.
• Holy Scripture.
• Patrology - the teaching about the fathers of the church.
• Mystical and dogmatic theology.

Since 1995, working in the Department for External Church Relations, in 2009 Bishop Hilarion was appointed chairman of this structural unit of the Moscow Patriarchate. The following year, Patriarch Kirill elevated Hilarion to the rank of metropolitan.

On April 14, 2009, Hilarion was appointed rector of the “Joy of All Who Sorrow” Church on Bolshaya Ordynka.

Schedule of services and address of the temple

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Pious parishioners and pilgrims strive to visit the Church of the “Joy of the Sorrowful” on Ordynka. The schedule of services, indicating the name of the serving priest, is on the temple website.

Every day in the church the Divine Liturgy is celebrated at 8 o'clock, and Vespers and Matins at 18 o'clock. On Sundays and holidays, the early liturgy begins at 7 o'clock and the late one at 10 o'clock. The All-Night Vigil begins at 18.00.

Besides:

• On Thursday, a prayer service is served with the blessing of water at the miraculous icon of the martyr Longinus.
• On Friday the deceased are remembered during the Funeral Vigil.
• On Saturday, a prayer service is performed and the water is blessed at the miraculous icon of the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow.”
• On Sunday, an akathist is sung before the holy image of “Joy to All Who Sorrow.”

The church is located at the address: Bolshaya Ordynka street, building 20. Nearby is the Tretyakovskaya metro station.

When the envoys of Prince Vladimir, who chose faith for confession in the 10th century, came to the St. Sophia Cathedral in Constantinople, they were amazed at the beauty and grandeur of the church service. The boyars did not understand the ancient Greek language, but it seemed to them that they were in heaven. At services in the Sorrow Church, parishioners experience similar feelings of aesthetic pleasure and spiritual cleansing.

Temple of All Who Sorrow Joy

Information for pilgrims

The church is located at the address: Moscow, Bolshaya Ordynka street, house number 20. The nearest station is Tretyakovskaya. To get to the cathedral, you should turn left from the metro exit and walk to the intersection with Bolshaya Ordynka, the temple is on the right.

Divine services in the Sorrow Church are held daily from 8:00 to 18:00; on Sundays and holidays there is an early liturgy at 7:00.

On a note! On Thursday and Saturday, parishioners have the opportunity to take part in water blessing prayers for healing in front of the shrines.

Story

Sergius Church of Ufa: the favorite temple of the artist Nesterov and the repressed abbots

On the site of the temple in the 16th century, there was a wooden church of St. Varlaam Khutynsky in “Hordyntsy” (mentioned in the chronicles in 1571; and some researchers associate its construction with the campaign of Vasily III to Kazan (1523), others - with immigrants from Novgorod who settled in Zamoskvorechye ). In -1685, a stone church was built, which was called Preobrazhensky. After the glorification of the icon of the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow” in it in 1688, which, according to legend, healed the seriously ill sister of Patriarch Joachim, the name of this miraculous image was assigned to the temple. A throne was made in the church in honor of the icon, as evidenced by the antimension issued for it in 1713. In 1770, the chapel of the icon “Joy of All Who Sorrow” was updated at the expense of G. Lyubovnikova.

In -1791, through the “zeal” of the Moscow 1st guild merchant Afanasy Dolgov, whose estate was located opposite, a refectory with thrones in the name of Varlaam of Khutyn and the icon of the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow,” as well as a three-tiered bell tower, were added to the building of 1685. Their project in the classicist style was carried out by the architect Vasily Bazhenov, Dolgov's son-in-law; The type of refectory first used here by Bazhenov subsequently became widespread in Moscow. The icons for the new iconostasis were painted in 1788 by the Sarov hieromonk Boniface. The consecration of the chapel in honor of the icon of the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow” was performed on October 24, 1790 by Metropolitan Platon.

In 1812, the temple was damaged by fire. In -1836, the old church of the 17th century was replaced by a rotunda with a raised dome - designed by the architect Osip Bove (in 1834-1836 it was carried out by his brother Mikhail Bove). A new building in the Empire style was erected at the expense of the merchants Kumanin and A. A. Dolgov. The archangels on the doors to the altar, the icon of St. Nicholas in the main iconostasis and the icon of Archdeacon Lawrence were painted by Vladimir Borovikovsky. The rebuilt church was consecrated by Metropolitan Philaret of Moscow on September 20, 1836.

In 1904, the church was reconsecrated after renovation.

In 1922, during the state campaign to confiscate church valuables, church decorations and utensils (more than 65 kg of gold and silver) were confiscated from the Sorrow Church. The temple was closed in 1933, the bells were removed, but the interior decoration was preserved. In 1941-1945, the Tretyakov Gallery storage rooms were located in it.

In 1948, the temple was reopened for worship; On May 12, 1948, Archpriest (later Archbishop) Kiprian (Zernov) was appointed rector, who served here (since 1966 he was an honorary rector) until his death on April 5, 1987 (died in the church). In the 1950s, regent Nikolai Matveev created a church choir here, which gained fame and recognition in musical circles; his choir, on the anniversary of the death of the composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky (November 8 - in order to avoid coincidence with the celebration of the October Revolution) performed the "Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom", written by Tchaikovsky (in Soviet times, not performed in any secular institutions, as well as in other churches - which attracted fans of the composer’s work). The tradition of performing this work by Tchaikovsky was restored in 2009.

In 1961, at the request of the residents of the house on Lavrushinsky Lane adjacent to the church, the bells from the bell tower were removed and moved to the church.

On January 3, 2010, Patriarch Kirill gave his blessing to revive the historical name of the Synodal Choir on the basis of the choir group of the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow.” Work on the revival of the once famous choir throughout Moscow began in the spring of 2009 on the initiative of Metropolitan Hilarion, appointed rector of the Sorrow Church, and Honored Artist of Russia Alexei Puzakov (in the 1980s, Puzakov managed the left choir of the Sorrow Church, working under the regent Nikolai Matveev).

In 2012-2013, the building was restored (architect I. V. Kalugina)

At the church there is a spiritual and educational center, which unites the efforts of the clergy and the parish community in missionary, catechetical, and social work; it operates a Sunday school for children, a youth club, catechesis courses for adults, and the “Old World” service (helping people suffering from one of the forms of addiction, and their relatives), as well as the Khomyakov Rehabilitation Center for victims of non-traditional religions.

To begin with, let me remind you that I have already created a couple of diaries about our trip to the capital in the “Pilgrimage” section.

They are about the churches on Bolshaya Ordynka, near the Tretyakovskaya metro station.

Here are the links:

Marfo-Mariinskaya Convent of Mercy

St. Nicholas Church in Pyzhi

I’ll give you another link in the form of a reminder about another diary of mine, which talked about the St. Petersburg miraculous icon of the Mother of God, called “Joy of All Who Sorrow”:

Matryona Barefoot - part 1

By some unknown providence, the Lord united my different paths into one, providing the opportunity to once again come into contact with the miracles occurring around the image, which received its name from the first lines of the Theotokos stichera:

“For all those who grieve, the joy and the offended intercessor, and the hungry for nourishment, the strange consolation, the overwhelmed refuge, the visitation of the sick, the infirm protection and intercessor, the rod of old age, You are the Mother of the Most High God, Most Pure One: we strive, we pray, that Thy servant may be saved.”

Here is a Moscow icon:

To this day, various sources do not have a consensus on where the original of this icon is - whether it remained in Moscow on Bolshaya Ordynka, or was it brought to St. Petersburg by the sister of Emperor Peter Natalya, subsequently becoming the St. Petersburg “With pennies”.

Be that as it may, the incredible thing is that ALL lists of the miraculous icon have amazing power - be they in Moscow, St. Petersburg, or in other cities. More precisely and in more detail about this is written here: link

So, brothers and sisters, let’s go with the Lord!..

...to Moscow, to Bolshaya Ordynka!

As usual, travelers receive their first information from what is written on the signs.

What follows are the impressions received from contemplating the architecture of the temple and its decorative elements. For example, the first thing I noticed on the façade was the “all-seeing eye.” Or did it notice me? ))) The first thought was: “The surveillance cameras are resting nervously on the sidelines... Remember, Volodya, they are nothing compared to the fact that every moment of your life is under strict control! For every step, for every word you have to give an answer. Some will be counted as a benefit, and some will become evidence of the accusation. Memento Mori!"

As I learned later, the Masonic symbol on the temple appeared according to the idea of ​​​​the architect Vasily Ivanovich Bazhenov - link , who was a member of several lodges - Moscow and St. Petersburg. However, all such signs and symbolic attributes do not in the least contradict the Orthodox faith. We have a lot of things like this in St. Petersburg, and in other cities too. After the fire of 1812, during the restoration and reconstruction of the temple begun by Bazhenov, Giuseppe Bove, the son of a Neapolitan, in Orthodoxy called Osip Ivanovich, preserved and increased the signs of the Masons. If you are interested, you can also read about it here: link

The All-Seeing Eye is even on the cross of the dome... And on the ball it is written “To the Known God.” By the way, there are only two such balloons with inscriptions (I haven’t seen them myself, I read them on the Internet). Sorry, but now I don’t remember where the second one is. Maybe some of you know? Write...

There are cherub angels on the façade.

The courtyard is small and therefore seems cozy. Someone's caring hands decorated the walls of the fence with flowers and even bird feeders. There are also devices here (on the walls of the fence) for hanging, for example, some pictures... or information. It seems that vernissages of Orthodox artists are organized here quite often.

Entry is provided for wheelchair users.

In fact, this church is called Transfiguration. Even earlier, being wooden in the 16th century, it was in honor of the Novgorod miracle worker St. Varlaam of Khutyn - link . Nowadays there is a chapel in honor of the saint, just as there is only a chapel for the miraculous icon. However, even without being the main temple icon, “Joy of All Who Sorrow” gave the popular name to the temple.

Standing in the temple between two miraculous springs (between two chapels), I felt some kind of special cleansing energy flow. I can't express in words what this is. Somewhere in the temple there is that very special point from which prayer can be most favorable.

I am not at all ashamed to confess to you the meaning of my secret prayer: it is in the form of gratitude to God and His Heavenly entourage for all the mercy that has been shown to me. For days and nights, for shelter and food, for the joy of communicating with loved ones and the bitterness of parting with those who are leaving, for my health and even for my illnesses!

Today all I have to ask God for is the same for other people !

Thank you, Lord, for everything!

Among the many that suffered abuse under Soviet rule, this temple was lucky in that the Tretyakov Gallery was nearby. The temple building with its icons was given over to the office space of a restoration workshop. It is clear that many treasures containing precious metals and stones disappeared without a trace, but at least something remained. After the war in 1948, the church was given to believers.

Here you can compare its appearance today with how it looked more than a century ago.

Or is it just me, or was there gilding on the black copper of its domes? The lanterns seemed to be gas... Under today's asphalt there were probably paving stones still lying... I also read that, at the request of many proletarian writers who lived on Ordynka, ringing the bells was forbidden. There are probably written complaints stored somewhere in the archives. I wonder whose? However, it's not interesting. Although... a name was found on the Internet. Osaf Litovsky is the prototype of the critic Latunsky from Bulgakov’s novel “The Master and Margarita.”

In the summer, the funeral service for the poet Andrei Dementyev was held here. Last year, the funeral service was held for the artist Alexei Batalov and the violinist Dmitry Kogan... In 1966, the funeral service for Anna Akhmatova was held here. By the way, I noticed this circumstance. When I was interested in the fate of the poetess, I suddenly realized that at the wedding Nikolai Gumilyov gave her the icon “Joy of All Who Sorrow.” Anna Andreevna lived with this icon, and her funeral service was performed under it.

Continuation of the diary here: link

Temple relics

Catherine's Church at the Catherine Institute (St. Petersburg)

The Church of the Transfiguration preserves shrines revered by Orthodox Christians:

1. The miraculous icon of the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow”, granting healing through the sincere prayers of believers. Regular unction of parishioners takes place in front of the holy image of the Queen of Heaven.
2. The venerated image of St. Andrew the First-Called with a particle of relics. On the icon, the figure of the apostle, depicted in full growth, is surrounded by stamps with moments from his life.
3. An icon of the faithful Peter and Fevronia with the relics of saints, transferred to the temple by the abbess of the Murom monastery.
4. Icon of Alexy, the man of God, and the ark with particles of the relics of the saint.
5. A shrine containing the relics of holy saints, taken out for veneration every Saturday.
6. The ark with shrines associated with the Passion of the Savior is carried out annually during Holy Week.
7. The miraculous icon of the martyr Longinus, helping with eye diseases.

Interesting Facts

• At first, a wooden church of the 16th century stood on the site of the temple. in honor of Varlaam Khutynsky, the stone Transfiguration Church appeared here in 1685.
• Funds for the reconstruction of the church were given in 1783 by its neighbor, the merchant Afanasy Dolgov. Moreover, he gave them not to just anyone, but to a relative, world-famous architect Vasily Bazhenov. His project renovated the temple and belfry in the spirit of classicism, but not completely, but only in the western part.
• The next to start decorating the temple was Osip Bove, who was restoring Moscow after 1812. Money was again donated by Zamoskvorechye merchants, Bove tried to preserve Bazhenov’s style in the construction and added the Empire style to the iconostasis. Like his predecessor, he did not see his creation during his lifetime.
• Unlike other churches, the temple was lucky with its owners in godless Soviet times: the Tretyakov Gallery's reserves were located here. Although the church lost its precious metals, the interior, the structure itself, the floor slabs and the cast iron fence from Bove’s time have survived to this day.
• Already in 1948, divine services were allowed in the temple, and a choir was organized under the direction of Nikolai Matveev (his performances were later replicated on gramophone records).
• A liturgy written by Pyotr Tchaikovsky was performed in the church, which could not be heard in any institution of the Soviet period. This melody has been heard again in this building since 2009, as well as the works of Sergei Rachmaninoff.
• Anna Akhmatova was a regular at the church on Bolshaya Ordynka.
• Loud bells in the 1960s. bothered the writers who lived in the neighborhood, so they were removed for several decades. Now they have taken their original place on the bell tower.

Temple of All Who Sorrow Joy on Bolshaya Ordynka - video

The most respected icon of the temple on Ordynka is “Joy of All Who Sorrow.” However, throughout Russia, temple after temple is dedicated to her.

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You look at the unusual shape of the rotunda for Orthodox churches, the strict classical features of the building, and somehow you immediately understand why Akhmatova liked it here and why Rachmaninov’s music has a place here. Some people will like icons for children, others strive to obtain healing from heaven for their loved ones. What purpose could bring you to the Temple of the Joy of All Who Sorrow?

Iconography

The icon depicts the Mother of God in full growth, with or without a baby in her arm. The All-Intercessor is surrounded by the radiance of the mandrola. This is a halo of a special oval shape, elongated in the vertical direction. The Virgin Mary is surrounded by angels, the New Testament Trinity and the Lord of Hosts are depicted in the clouds.

This principle of iconography developed in Rus' in the seventeenth century under the influence of Western European traditions. The iconography of the image could not obtain a single completed composition and is presented in churches in many versions. The most famous are two types of icon painting - with a baby in arms, as in the temple on Ordynka, and without it.

The peculiarity of the icon is that, together with the Mother of God, it depicts people tormented by sorrows and illnesses, and angels who perform good deeds in the name of the All-Savior.

Address and schedule

Address: Moscow, B. Ordynka street, 20. You can get there by metro, Tretyakovskaya or Novokuznetskaya station. Schedule at the Church of All Who Sorrow on Ordynka on weekdays:

• chant at 08:00 and 18:00 and prayer to the Mother of God “Joy of all who mourn”;
• prayer to the martyr Longinus the centurion at 11:30 on Thursday.

Schedule of services of the temple on Bolshaya Ordynka on weekends:

• daily hymns at 08:00 and 18:00 and prayers at the icon of the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow”;
• prayer to the martyr Boniface at 15:30 on Saturday;
• Vespers with akathist to the Most Holy Theotokos “Joy of All Who Sorrow” at 18:00 on Sunday.

The Lord is always with you!

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Interior decoration

The Church of All Who Sorrow Joy on Ordynka has unique historical interiors. The cast-iron floor with a relief pattern, made according to Bove's sketches, subtly harmonizes with the preserved carved iconostasis and skillful candlesticks.

The painting of the frescoes, as well as the iconostases with icons, were done at different times by skilled craftsmen and famous artists. The warm western part of the temple is decorated with gilded iconostases, the walls and pillars of the interior are decorated with gilded frames with paintings of biblical scenes.

The ceiling vault rises on 12 columns of the Ionic style, repeating the external order. The transition to the summer part is decorated with architectural white marble details with round staircases made of white marble leading to icons, which are supported by sculptures of a pair of angels on both sides.

The area in front of each icon is fenced with an artistic bronze gilded lattice. The opening is designed in the form of a wide arch. The temple frescoes contain motifs atypical for Orthodox churches and are made using the grisaille technique.

Schedule of services

A prayer service at the miraculous icon of the Mother of God is performed daily on weekdays after the Liturgy

Memorial service: - after the prayer service

If the Liturgy is not served, then a prayer service and memorial service are celebrated at 9:00

Prayer service martyr. Login to the centurion: Thursday at 11:30

Prayer service for the sick and suffering: Saturday at 16:30

Confession

Weekdays: individual confession before the Liturgy and throughout the day. Be sure to wear masks.

Sunday: general confession at early and late Liturgies

Opening hours and schedule of services

Regular services are held at the Sorrow Church:

The following prayer services are performed regularly:

1. every day after the Divine Liturgy in front of the miraculous icon of the Mother of God;
2. on Saturdays at 15-30 to the martyr Boniface;
3. on Thursdays at 11-30 to the martyr Longinus.

Sunday school for children 6-13 years old holds weekly classes on Sundays at 12-30 p.m.

The public Orthodox library of the temple in the spiritual and educational center of Ascension can be visited on Saturday from 11 to 18 hours, and on Sunday from 12 to 16 hours. Children visit the children's studio of the Synodal Choir department 2 times a week on Mondays and Thursdays. In addition to choral classes, the study program includes solfeggio and church singing lessons.

Young parishioners of the church meet every week on Sundays from 13:00 in the parish building. The Center for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Non-Traditional Religions meets weekly on Tuesdays from 12 to 5 p.m., and in the evenings from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Bible school classes for adults are held.

Rector of the church

Grigory Valerievich Alfeev was born on July 24, 1966. The boy received his secondary education at the Moscow Music School named after. Gnesins, majoring in violin and composition. Here he became acquainted with znamenny singing and hook recording of a melody.

At the age of eleven, the boy underwent the rite of baptism. From the age of 15, Gregory served as a reader in the Church of the Resurrection of the Word, and then as a subdeacon under Metropolitan Pitirim of Volokolamsk and Yuryevsk.

After school, the young man enters the Moscow Conservatory, the composition department. Service in the Soviet Army interrupts education for two years. In January 1987, the young man left his studies and entered obedience at the Vilna Monastery of the Holy Spirit. Six months later he was tonsured into monasticism.

From 1988 to 1990, the future metropolitan served as a priest in the churches of the Vilna and Lithuanian diocese. In 1990 he became rector of the Kaunas Cathedral of the Annunciation. As an elected delegate, he took part in the Local Council of the Russian Church, which elected Alexy II to the patriarchal throne.

In January 1991, Soviet troops, brought into Lithuania by Gorbachev, captured the Vilnius television center, which resulted in casualties. The next military target was Kaunas. Hilarion appears on television and calls on soldiers not to shoot at unarmed people. Criminal bloodshed was prevented.

In 1989, Hilarion graduated in absentia from the Moscow Theological Seminary, and two years later from the Theological Academy. And two years later, the young priest graduated from graduate school at the academy. From that moment on, a lot of time was devoted to teaching church disciplines:

• Homiletics - rules for composing a sermon.
• Holy Scripture.
• Patrology - the teaching about the fathers of the church.
• Mystical and dogmatic theology.

Since 1995, working in the Department for External Church Relations, in 2009 Bishop Hilarion was appointed chairman of this structural unit of the Moscow Patriarchate. The following year, Patriarch Kirill elevated Hilarion to the rank of metropolitan.

On April 14, 2009, Hilarion was appointed rector of the “Joy of All Who Sorrow” Church on Bolshaya Ordynka.

Church history

At the beginning of the thirteenth century, the Golden Horde actively invaded the Slavic lands. Ryazan, Kolomna, Moscow become the first cities to fall under the onslaught of the invaders. Mongol-Tatar conquerors rob and burn settlements, Russian people are killed or taken prisoner. Western historian Alan Fisher estimates that nearly three million people were taken into slavery.

The state, church and relatives ransomed the slaves. The ambassadorial order, by decree of Ivan the Terrible, allocated funds from the royal treasury for the release of prisoners whom the Tatars sold. Metropolitan Philip bought a blacksmith master from the Horde with his own money. For a relative you had to pay from 40 to 600 rubles, depending on your status. For example, in the 16th century, a cow or horse cost 1 ruble.

The path along which the freed slaves returned to Moscow was called the “Horde road,” and the place of their settlement was called Ordynka. In this area, a wooden church was erected in honor of Varlaam Khutynsky, which was rebuilt in the mid-seventeenth century into a stone church with a main altar in the name of the Transfiguration of the Lord.

In 1688, the first miracle happened from the icon “Joy of All Who Sorrow.” The seriously ill sister of the Moscow Patriarch, Euphemia Papina, in prayer to the Mother of God, heard a voice commanding her to find the holy image in the Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior and serve a prayer service with the blessing of water. Having fulfilled the order of the Queen of Heaven, the sick woman was healed.

The production of the miraculous icon became famous in St. Petersburg. In 1888, lightning struck the chapel where the list was kept. The holy image was not damaged, but 12 coins from the donation mug were attached to it. Until 1932, the image of the Mother of God was located in the Church of Sorrows on the banks of the Neva. In the fifties of the last century, the icon “Joy of All Who Sorrow” with pennies was transferred to the “Kulich and Easter” church, where it remains today.

A chapel in honor of the miraculous icon was added to the temple in 1713, when an antimension was issued for the altar. In 1770, the church was renovated and improved with donations from G. Lyubovnikova.

In 1783, the Moscow merchant of the first guild Afanasy Ivanovich Dolgov allocated a large sum for the reconstruction of the building. The benefactor's son-in-law, Vasily Ivanovich Bazhenov, took over the restructuring. According to the architect's design, a bell tower and a refectory with two side chapels are being built. The monk Boniface of the Sarov Monastery painted icons for the church.

During the famous fire of 1812, the temple was so damaged that the building had to be practically rebuilt. The architect O.I. Bove tried to preserve parts of the surviving Bazhenov building. The renovated rotunda church was consecrated by Moscow Metropolitan Philaret in 1836.

In the thirties, Bolshevik leaders closed the church. Seventy-seven kilograms of gold and silver church utensils were confiscated by Gokhran. The atheists removed and destroyed the bells. The cathedral was saved from complete destruction by storing the reserve funds of the Tretyakov Gallery in its premises.

On Palm Sunday 1948, the Transfiguration Church resumed services, and to this day attracts those who want to join spiritual values ​​in a historical architectural monument of a unique design.

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History of the temple

The first information about the ancient wooden church, located on the road leading to Ordu, dates back to the beginning of the 15th century. In its place, in 1863, construction began on a stone church, which ended two years later with the consecration of the new Transfiguration Church, where, among many images, there was the icon “Joy of All Who Sorrow.”

This icon of the Most Pure One was especially revered by the people, and in 1688 it became venerated after the miraculous healing of the seriously ill Euphemia. The woman, bedridden, experienced unbearable suffering from a bleeding wound on her body; treatment was ineffective; doctors did not give any hope for a cure.

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Crying out to the Mother of God in despair, Euphemia heard a voice. Reproaching the patient for not turning to the Healer, whose image is kept in the Transfiguration Church, the voice ordered to serve a prayer service with blessing of water before the image of the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow,” and then glorify the name of the Mother of God. Euphemia was healed, and news of the miracle spread throughout Russia, because the woman was the sister of Patriarch Joachim.

In 1713, Divine Liturgies began to be celebrated in the chapel of the miraculous image attached to the Church of the Transfiguration. And 70 years later the temple was reconstructed by the famous architect Bazhenov.

The Moscow fire of 1812 almost destroyed the church; restoration was impossible. Therefore, the temple was rebuilt over the course of 5 years. The work was headed by Moscow urban planner O. I. Bove. The master managed to miraculously preserve the surviving fragments of Bazhenov’s building, and he became the author of the painting of the cast-iron floor slabs of the temple.

The images of St. Nicholas and the Archangels on the iconostasis were made by the famous Russian artist Borovikovsky. The new church in 1863 was solemnly consecrated by St. Philaret, in memory of this event, an icon of the saint was painted with a particle of his relics.

The persecution of Orthodoxy in the 30s of the 20th century did not spare this temple either; it was closed by the authorities. Fortunately, part of the Tretyakov Gallery collection was placed here, which made it possible to partially preserve the interior and interior decoration. With the restoration of the Patriarchate on Palm Sunday 1948, the temple was reopened.

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Schedule of services in the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow” on Ordynka

On any day of the week you can attend some kind of service or ceremony in the church. Services are held according to the following schedule:

• morning liturgy, 8:00 (Monday - Saturday);
• evening service, 18:00 (Monday - Saturday);
• early liturgy, 7:00, and late liturgy, 10:00 (Sunday, holidays);
• all-night service, 18:00 (Sundays, holidays);

• prayer for healing the eyes at the icon of the centurion Longinus, 11:30 (Thursday);
• funeral vigil service, 18:00 (Friday);
• prayer for healing from drunkenness and drug addiction at the icon “Joy of All Who Sorrow”, 15:30 (Saturday);
• Akathist at the icon “Joy of All Who Sorrow”, 18:00 (Sunday).

As for other rites, they are performed in the church at the request of parishioners, so that baptisms of children, weddings, memorial services and funeral services are constantly held. These ceremonies are ordered regularly, so the temple is always crowded.

Chapel of the Icon of the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow”

In 1999, at midnight on September 9, a terrible explosion occurred on Guryanov Street in Pechatniki. The first terrorist attack in Moscow claimed the lives of more than 100 people, maimed more than 690 residents, and caused severe psychological trauma to tens of thousands of people.

In memory of the victims, a chapel was consecrated in 2003 very close to the site of the tragedy. Small, with many golden domes, it is named after the image of the “Joy of All Who Sorrow” of the Most Pure Mother of God. Here memorial services and prayer services are held for all those innocently killed in front of the “Sorrowful” icon.

Temple shrines

• Icon of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, embroidered by the parish's gold seamstresses in the 20s of the 20th century.
• Icon of the blessed prince Vladimir of Novgorod with a particle of his relics.
• Icon of Righteous John of Kronstadt with part of a lock of his hair.
• The icon of the holy righteous John of Kronstadt keeps his epitrachelion.
• Icon of the Holy New Martyrs of Russia with a piece of the foundation of the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg.
• Icon of St. John, Metropolitan of Tobolsk, with a particle of his relics.
• Icon of the Venerable Moses Ugrin with a particle of his relics.
• Icon of the righteous Alexy of Moscow with a particle of his relics.
• Icon of St. Luke, Archbishop of Simferopol, with a particle of his relics.
• A reliquary containing part of the Mamre oak; part of the Holy Sepulcher; pieces of relics: Saint Righteous Anna, mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary (1st century); holy martyrs killed in Bethlehem (1st century); Apostle, First Martyr and Archdeacon Stephen (34); Apostle Andrew the First-Called (62); the supreme apostle Paul (67); Apostle Bartholomew (1st century); Apostle Ananias from the 70th century (1st century); Apostle Fortunatus of the 70s (1st century); Martyr Protasius (54-68); Martyr Pius, Pope of Rome (142-157); martyr Felix the Roman (164); Martyr Justin the Philosopher (166); Martyrs Blonde of Lyons (177); Martyr Charalampios (202); martyr Tryphon (250); martyr Archdeacon Lawrence (258); martyr Mamant (275); Martyrs Daria (283); Hieromartyr Zenobius, Bishop of Aegean (285); martyr Sebastian of Rome (287); Martyr Alexander of Rome (beginning of the 4th century); Martyrs Theophila (302); Martyr Vincent (304); Martyr Boniface (304); Great Martyr Anastasia the Pattern Maker (304); Martyr Justina (304); Martyr Lucia of Syracuse (304); Great Martyr Demetrius of Thessalonica (c. 306); martyr Sirenius of Rome (c. 307); Equal to the Apostles Queen Helen (327); Saint Spyridon of Trimifunt (c. 348); Hieromartyr Kyriakos, Patriarch of Jerusalem (363); St. Basil the Great (379); Saint Porphyry, Archbishop of Gaza (420); St. Paul the Merciful, Bishop of Nolan (431); St. Savva the Sanctified (532); St. John Climacus (649); righteous Theodora, Queen of Greece (c. 867); Equal to the Apostles Olga, Grand Duchess of Russia (969); St. Mark the Grave Digger, Pechersk (XI-XI); Blessed Prince Andrei of Smolensk (1539); St. Arseny, Elasson, archbishop. Suzdal (1625); Venerable Cornelius of Alexandrovsk (1681); Righteous John the Russian, Confessor (1730); St. Anthony of Optina (1865); Saint Ignatius (Brianchaninov), Bishop of the Caucasus (1867); Venerable Barsanuphius of Optina (1913); particles from the tombs of the holy martyrs Elizabeth and Barbara (1918); Venerable Anatoly of Optina (1922); St. Agafangel the Confessor, Metropolitan. Yaroslavsky (1928); St. Theodosius the Confessor, Bishop of Kolomna (1937); St. George, confessor of Danilovsky (1944).
• A reliquary with the relics of Saints Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Jonah, Metropolitan of Moscow and All Rus', Luke, Archbishop of Simferopol, Archimandrite Sergius (Srebryansky), confessor, a piece of the vestment of Saint Joasaph, Bishop of Belgorod and part of the coffin of Matrona of Moscow.
• A reliquary with particles of the Robe of the Lord, the Life-Giving Cross, the stone of the Holy Sepulcher and particles of the relics of: the Forerunner and Baptist of the Lord John, the Apostle Andrew the First-Called, the Apostle Barnabas, Saints Nicholas the Wonderworker and John Chrysostom, the Great Martyr and Healer Panteleimon, the Great Martyr George the Victorious, the Great Martyr Barbara, the Martyr Dionysius , unknown martyrs of the 3rd century, Saints Daniel of Moscow, Nil of Stolobensky, Shio Mgvimsky, John the Long-Suffering, Sergius the Obedient, blessed princes Peter, Fevronia and Mikhail of Murom, righteous Juliania of Murom, particles of the mantle of St. Ignatius Brianchaninov, the mantle and tomb of St. Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus'.

Interesting Facts

• At first, a wooden church of the 16th century stood on the site of the temple. in honor of Varlaam Khutynsky, the stone Transfiguration Church appeared here in 1685.
• Funds for the reconstruction of the church were given in 1783 by its neighbor, the merchant Afanasy Dolgov. Moreover, he gave them not to just anyone, but to a relative, world-famous architect Vasily Bazhenov. His project renovated the temple and belfry in the spirit of classicism, but not completely, but only in the western part.
• The next to start decorating the temple was Osip Bove, who was restoring Moscow after 1812. Money was again donated by Zamoskvorechye merchants, Bove tried to preserve Bazhenov’s style in the construction and added the Empire style to the iconostasis. Like his predecessor, he did not see his creation during his lifetime.
• Unlike other churches, the temple was lucky with its owners in godless Soviet times: the Tretyakov Gallery's reserves were located here. Although the church lost its precious metals, the interior, the structure itself, the floor slabs and the cast iron fence from Bove’s time have survived to this day.
• Already in 1948, divine services were allowed in the temple, and a choir was organized under the direction of Nikolai Matveev (his performances were later replicated on gramophone records).
• A liturgy written by Pyotr Tchaikovsky was performed in the church, which could not be heard in any institution of the Soviet period. This melody has been heard again in this building since 2009, as well as the works of Sergei Rachmaninoff.
• Anna Akhmatova was a regular at the church on Bolshaya Ordynka.
• Loud bells in the 1960s. bothered the writers who lived in the neighborhood, so they were removed for several decades. Now they have taken their original place on the bell tower.

Schedule of services in the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow” on Ordynka

On any day of the week you can attend some kind of service or ceremony in the church. Services are held according to the following schedule:

• morning liturgy, 8:00 (Monday - Saturday);
• evening service, 18:00 (Monday - Saturday);
• early liturgy, 7:00, and late liturgy, 10:00 (Sunday, holidays);
• all-night service, 18:00 (Sundays, holidays);

• prayer for healing the eyes at the icon of the centurion Longinus, 11:30 (Thursday);
• funeral vigil service, 18:00 (Friday);
• prayer for healing from drunkenness and drug addiction at the icon “Joy of All Who Sorrow”, 15:30 (Saturday);
• Akathist at the icon “Joy of All Who Sorrow”, 18:00 (Sunday).

Architecture

The building of the Church “Joy of All Who Sorrow” on Ordynka attracts attention with a large dome of an unusual shape of a cylindrical rotunda and semicircular windows. There are 12 columns in the interior that serve as supports for a small drum of a semicircular sphere.

A distinctive feature is the candlesticks. They are located at the top and attendants use a ladder to light candles.

The main shrine, the Orthodox icon “Joy of All Who Sorrow,” has been kept for more than 300 years and has a hidden meaning inherent in the name. The Mother of God rushes to help relieve pain, sadness and illness. The icon shows the Mother of God with a child in her arms at full height and with a halo of mandrola radiance, surrounded by angels and in a cloud, the Trinity and the Lord. At the bottom of the icon are people in suffering, sorrow and illness.

The image became famous in St. Petersburg when lightning struck the chapel where the icon was located, but the shrine remained intact, only the coppers stuck tightly to it. At this place there is currently a church, and the icon is kept in it in the same form with copper pennies. The most popular iconographic variations are the Mother of God with or without a child in her arms. The sick, women expecting sons from war, and families experiencing grief can ask Our Lady for support.

How to get there by car, public transport

The most convenient way to visit the Church of All Who Sorrow Joy on Ordynka is by taking public transport of the Moscow metro to the Tretyakovskaya station, which is located across the road at a distance of less than 100 m from the entrance to the church fence. You can take bus number 5 to the stop of the same name. Tram number 3 also stops here

From the Novokuznetskaya metro station you will have to walk a little longer, along Klementovsky Lane, about 5-7 minutes. you will have to spend to cover a distance of no more than 400 m. From Polyanka station you can walk on foot through Staromonetny Lane, and then walk along Pyzhevsky or Bolshoi Tolmachevsky Lane to Bolshaya Ordynka. Travel time takes about 12-13 minutes.

The most convenient way to travel by private car is from the Moscow Ring Road:

1. along the Enthusiasts Highway;
2. further along Sergius of Radonezh Street;
3. then along Nikoloyamskaya Street;
4. then cross a small section of Yauzskaya Street to the intersection with Yauzsky Boulevard and turn left;
5. drive along Sadovnicheskaya Embankment, then along Lubochny Lane to Bolshaya Ordynka, where you need to turn left and proceed straight to your destination.

Notes

1. Strakhov S., priest.
   Historical and archaeological notes about Moscow churches. VII. Inscription at the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord, on Ordynka, about the construction of a meal with two side chapels // Moscow Church Gazette. - 1892. - No. 51. - P. 788.
2. The solemn round colonnade with an overhead light did not at all correspond to the spirit of an Orthodox church; the distribution of icons in the iconostasis did not correspond to the canonical, ancient Russian one. - Around Moscow. - M.: Publishing house M. and S. Sabashnikov, 1917. - P. 313.
3. . Tree.
   Open Orthodox Encyclopedia (08/19/2013). Access date: January 25, 2022.
4. Moscow, which exists / comp. A. Alekseev. - M.: Department of Cultural Heritage of Moscow, 2013. - P. 44. - 174 p.
5. . ordynka.com. Date accessed: May 12, 2022.

Address and schedule

Address: Moscow, B. Ordynka street, 20. You can get there by metro, Tretyakovskaya or Novokuznetskaya station. Schedule at the Church of All Who Sorrow on Ordynka on weekdays:

• chant at 08:00 and 18:00 and prayer to the Mother of God “Joy of all who mourn”;
• prayer to the martyr Longinus the centurion at 11:30 on Thursday.

Schedule of services of the temple on Bolshaya Ordynka on weekends:

• daily hymns at 08:00 and 18:00 and prayers at the icon of the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow”;
• prayer to the martyr Boniface at 15:30 on Saturday;
• Vespers with akathist to the Most Holy Theotokos “Joy of All Who Sorrow” at 18:00 on Sunday.

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Historical events

The Church of All Who Sorrow Joy on Ordynka traces its rich history back to the second half of the 16th century, when the first mention in the chronicle of a wooden church in Ordyntsy was found, consecrated in honor of the Venerable Holy Desert Dweller Varlaam, the founder and abbot of the Transfiguration Khutyn Monastery in Veliky Novgorod.

There was a road connecting Zamoskvorechye with the Golden Horde, and this area was inhabited by the Horde, tribute collectors and overseers. Later, Russian families redeemed from Mongol captivity immediately began to settle in, for whom a church was built under Metropolitan Varlaam.

After 100 years, the temple was rebuilt in stone with donations from Vasilyeva’s widow Akinfova Evdokia, and in 1688 the miraculous glorification of the Mother of God icon took place, receiving great veneration among believers in the Orthodox Church. The sister of Peter the Great, Princess Natalya, was especially in awe of this image. She ordered that a list be made from her for St. Petersburg.

In 1713, in honor of this image, the throne in the Transfiguration Church on Ordynka was consecrated, which, after numerous miracles and healings occurring from the holy icon, became better known among pious Muscovites in the second aisle.

From that time on, the church flourished and grew rich due to the constant flow of believers who flocked to the miraculous image from all over the area, making generous donations and gifts.

In the 33rd year of the last century, the Sorrow Church was closed, the utensils and bells were confiscated, and the building itself with its interiors was transferred as a storage room to the Tretyakov Gallery. Museum staff have preserved almost all the priceless church decoration of this unique architectural and cultural site.

And already in 1948, the church was one of the first to be reopened, after the newly restored Russian Patriarchate, and church services there were no longer interrupted.

At the same time, regent Nikolai Matveev created a church choir, which gained great fame in wide musical circles for performing the liturgy written by Tchaikovsky and the all-night vigil of Rachmaninoff, which were prohibited in secular Soviet institutions.

Today this tradition, which was later lost, has been resumed. Almost 10 years have passed since the revival of the Synodal Choir, whose spiritual chants during church services or specially held concerts became very popular with Muscovites.

Schedule of services in the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow” on Ordynka

On any day of the week you can attend some kind of service or ceremony in the church. Services are held according to the following schedule:

• morning liturgy, 8:00 (Monday - Saturday);
• evening service, 18:00 (Monday - Saturday);
• early liturgy, 7:00, and late liturgy, 10:00 (Sunday, holidays);
• all-night service, 18:00 (Sundays, holidays);

• prayer for healing the eyes at the icon of the centurion Longinus, 11:30 (Thursday);
• funeral vigil service, 18:00 (Friday);
• prayer for healing from drunkenness and drug addiction at the icon “Joy of All Who Sorrow”, 15:30 (Saturday);
• Akathist at the icon “Joy of All Who Sorrow”, 18:00 (Sunday).

As for other rites, they are performed in the church at the request of parishioners, so that baptisms of children, weddings, memorial services and funeral services are constantly held. These ceremonies are ordered regularly, so the temple is always crowded.

Icons and lists of “Joy to All Who Sorrow”: meaning in the Orthodox faith

“Joy to all who mourn” is the first line of one of their stichera. Even the name of this image contributed to the fact that it became so widespread in our country. In addition to the first icon located in the Moscow church, there are about two dozen locally revered and miraculous lists.

The meaning hidden in the name of the icon is very close and understandable to the soul of the Russian person. The meaning of the images “Joy of All Who Sorrow” is revealed as follows: this is the believer’s reckless hope in the Most Pure Mother of God, who is everywhere hastening to ease sorrow, to console, to save people from sorrow and suffering, to give healing to the sick and clothing to the naked...

Interesting Facts

• At first, a wooden church of the 16th century stood on the site of the temple. in honor of Varlaam Khutynsky, the stone Transfiguration Church appeared here in 1685.
• Funds for the reconstruction of the church were given in 1783 by its neighbor, the merchant Afanasy Dolgov. Moreover, he gave them not to just anyone, but to a relative, world-famous architect Vasily Bazhenov. His project renovated the temple and belfry in the spirit of classicism, but not completely, but only in the western part.
• The next to start decorating the temple was Osip Bove, who was restoring Moscow after 1812. Money was again donated by Zamoskvorechye merchants, Bove tried to preserve Bazhenov’s style in the construction and added the Empire style to the iconostasis. Like his predecessor, he did not see his creation during his lifetime.
• Unlike other churches, the temple was lucky with its owners in godless Soviet times: the Tretyakov Gallery's reserves were located here. Although the church lost its precious metals, the interior, the structure itself, the floor slabs and the cast iron fence from Bove’s time have survived to this day.
• Already in 1948, divine services were allowed in the temple, and a choir was organized under the direction of Nikolai Matveev (his performances were later replicated on gramophone records).
• A liturgy written by Pyotr Tchaikovsky was performed in the church, which could not be heard in any institution of the Soviet period. This melody has been heard again in this building since 2009, as well as the works of Sergei Rachmaninoff.
• Anna Akhmatova was a regular at the church on Bolshaya Ordynka.
• Loud bells in the 1960s. bothered the writers who lived in the neighborhood, so they were removed for several decades. Now they have taken their original place on the bell tower.

Shrines

There are many objects of special veneration in the Church of All Who Sorrow Joy on Bolshaya Ordynka, and they are varied. These include:

• Icon of the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow.” Since 1688, it has been named after the miraculous, since within the walls of the Church of the Transfiguration there was a healing from a fatal disease. In addition to the Mother of God and the Child, the icon depicts angels, tormented people, saints like Sergius of Radonezh and Varlaam of Khutyn, as well as the Fatherland. Non-Orthodox people are also allowed to pray in front of this icon;
• icon of the martyr Longinus. This Roman centurion, according to the church, was present at both the execution of Christ and his resurrection. Having become a Christian, Longinus testified about the Son of God in Cappadocia, where he was beheaded for this. The blind woman who found his head regained her sight, and since then the image of the centurion Longinus has been asked for victory over eye diseases;
• icon of the Apostle Andrew the First-Called + part of his relics. According to legend, the apostle healed many diseases and founded many churches far from his native land, including in Rus';
• a casket with many remains of saints, including John the Baptist, the apostles Peter, Paul and Simon, the martyrs Dionysius, Boniface, Tatiana and Natalia, the preachers Seraphim of Sarov, Silouan of Athos, Sergius of Radonezh and others.
  icon of the martyr Boniface

Interesting facts and legends

Over the long history of the temple’s existence, many different, including contradictory, facts have accumulated:

• There is an opinion that the main holy icon was irretrievably lost during the years of Soviet power, and an exact copy of the image, made in the 18th century, was returned to the temple.
• The ancient candlesticks of the temple are arranged in an interesting way, and in order to light a candle, you have to climb a portable wooden ladder.
• There is information about the affiliation with the Freemasons of the architect Vasily Bazhenov, who would almost be the Supreme Master of the lodge. This left its mark on the elements and some attributes of the church buildings he built.
• The sons of the merchant Kumanin were given a noble title for their generous donations to the construction of the temple.
• Osip Bove did not have time to complete his creation, which was being completed by his brother Mikhail Bove.
• The church was visited several times by Anna Akhmatova, who left mentions about it in her diary entries.

  
  There is a legend that Anna Akhmatova visited the Temple of All Who Sorrow Joy on Ordynka.

• The cast-iron fence of the early 19th century, the almshouse and the parable house building from the mid-18th century were taken under special state protection.
• Several musical recordings were performed by an excellent church choir in the middle of the last century and released on gramophone records.
• Since 91 of the last century, an icon-painting workshop has been operating at the temple, which trains young icon painters, restores ancient icons, paints new images and creates iconostases, icon cases and other church decorations.
• The church’s website broadcasts church services and posts audio and video recordings of concerts, sermons and films. Here you can also find a unique collection of church chants and recordings of concerts of the last century.