Temple of Andrei Rublev: history of construction in Ramenki

Social activities

The church operates a Sunday school for children and adults, a parish charity group, a Temperance Society, a parish youth organization, and meetings of young families of the parish.

The temple supports the following social institutions:

• Russian Children's Clinical Hospital - distribution of gifts for the holidays;
• orphanage "Nikita" (Pavlo-Posad district, Byvalino village) - food and clothing assistance (clothes, shoes, toys, diapers, stationery);
• Service Industry College No. 44 (Ramenki St., 4) - the priest of the Church of St. Andrew teaches defense education there;

Correctional institutions (the temple helps the Orthodox communities created in them):

• LIU-3 (Komi Republic, Knyazhpogostsky district, Rakpas village, medical and correctional institution for tuberculosis patients, Orthodox community of the Church of St. Seraphim of Sarov) - clothing aid (spiritual literature, what is necessary for the temple and Divine services, etc.) n.) + training in correspondence Sunday school was organized;
• IK-62 (Sverdlovsk district, Ivdel, Orthodox community of the Church of the Apostle Andrew the First-Called) - clothing assistance (spiritual literature, what is needed for the temple and services, etc.) + training in correspondence Sunday school is organized;
• Correctional colony UH 16/7 (Omsk, Orthodox community of the Church of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia) - material assistance (spiritual literature, what is needed for the temple and Divine services, etc.) + training in correspondence Sunday school is organized;
• LIU-51 (Sverdlovsk region, Art. San Donato, Orthodox community of the Church of Martyr Panteleimon) - material aid (spiritual literature, what is necessary for the temple and Divine services, etc.);
• IK-24 (Sverdlovsk region, Azanka village, Orthodox community) - clothing assistance (spiritual literature, what is needed for the prayer room, etc.);
• IK-53 (Sverdlovsk region, Verkhoturye, Orthodox community of the Church of the Resurrection of Christ) - material assistance (spiritual literature, etc.).

The temple cooperates with the Russian Birch Foundation and regularly helps three large priestly families, as well as several single and large mothers.

A temperance society was organized at the temple. The spiritual director of the temperance society is Priest Alexander Nikolsky. Prayers are held in front of the icon of the Mother of God “The Undrinkable Chalice”, with the obligatory presence of members of the temperance society. Psychological conversations are conducted with relatives of people suffering from addiction.

Hospital care.

• Glavmosstroy Hospital (Medical Unit No. 47) Michurinsky Prospekt, 56 Responsible for communication with the medical institution: Gurina Maria Nikolaevna Tel.: 8-916-804-36-44 e-mail

Candidates for rank

The path to the temple began back in 1993. First, explains Father Andrei, the community gathered, registered, and began begging for land - this is not easy in Moscow. Then, by decree of the Moscow Government, a vacant lot was allocated, and then, with the blessing of the Patriarch, work began on the project. It’s also slow: there are a lot of communications around that need to be taken into account, plus the Ramenki metro station is being built.

— In 2001, this wooden chapel was built. There is nothing more permanent than temporary,” Father Andrey laughs. — During the liturgy, 200 people stand here! Many people were baptized here, got married, someone was escorted into another world...

It was from this small church that the path to Orthodoxy began for priest Gleb Kiselyov, a graduate of the Faculty of Physics of Moscow State University, and now a cleric of the Andrei Rublev Church. He said he was brought to church by his wife.

— I came to the temple about 10 years ago, I wanted to become a priest. But you cannot become one right away: this is a long procedure, you need to receive a higher spiritual education. Then I was ordained, and I already had a large family, three children - now there are five. I had to work in science (father Gleb is a candidate of physical and mathematical sciences - “TD”), but I always perceived science as something external. The time has come - I became a priest.

There are now two candidates of science serving in the church - also Father Nikolai from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics. And Father Alexander, also a graduate of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics.

For Archpriest Alexander Nikolsky, the path to God began right in the corridor of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics. “Once I was walking past a smoking room, I heard students talking and my ear caught the words “father” and “conversations.” He returned to the smoking room and asked: “What kind of priest, what kind of conversation?” So he came to his future confessor, then entered the seminary and became a priest,” this is how 22-year-old Kostya, one of the “Andreevites,” tells the story of Father Alexander.

Temple Information

• 1993 - the community of the Church of St. Andrei Rublev in Ramenki, Moscow was registered;
• 1994 - a Cross was installed at the construction site of the future church, prayer services were held;
• 1994 - 2000 — registration of land allotment for the construction of the temple, design work;
• 1996 - construction of the wooden chapel of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Ramenki, the beginning of services at the site of the temple construction;
• 2000 - obtaining permission to carry out preparatory construction work, moving the Chapel of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Ramenki from the construction site, preparatory work was completed;
• 2000 - 2008 - four Decrees of the Moscow Government were issued in connection with changing land legislation, land allotment was issued, construction permits were obtained, financing was sought;
• 10/24/2008 - the beginning of construction of the temple - the holiday of the “First Bucket”;
• March 2009 - the foundation slab of the temple was completed;
• 02/26/2010 - with the blessing of His Holiness, His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' KIRILL, the Rite of foundation of the temple was performed, which was performed by His Eminence Kirill, Bishop of Pavlovo-Posad, vicar of the Holy Patriarch;
• November 2010 - construction of the “zero” cycle of the temple was completed - the ground floor, which will house the lower baptismal temple, Sunday school classes, service and technical premises;
• 2010 - 2011 — internal work, design of external engineering networks;
• October 2011 - start of work on installing water supply and domestic sewage systems.

Shrines:

• Icon of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary
• Icon sschmch. Thaddeus with a particle of relics

Physicists and clergy: a temple where MSU graduates serve

The church of St. Andrei Rublev in Ramenki could easily be called “at Moscow State University”: dozens of its parishioners and three priests are university graduates. The church building under construction on Michurinsky Prospekt promises to become the architectural dominant of the area, but when is a painful question: money for construction has been collected for the ninth year. But even in such conditions, the parish manages to care for the elderly, collect things for the poor and send humanitarian aid to Donbass.

Meal in the cabin

Anya leads the collection of things

— When I ran through the trenches, I always had a pistol and a grenade ready. So as not to surrender... - a woman named Vera talks about suicide. The priest, Father Andrei, listens silently, does not interrupt, sometimes quietly sighs: “Save, Lord!” No condemnation, no teaching.

Vera came from Donbass. She says she fought. In her native Krasnodon, which glorified the feat of the Young Guard, she has children and grandchildren. They live from hand to mouth. She scraped together the last 4 thousand rubles and came to Moscow, got a job as a concierge in a residential building in Ramenki. She sends all the money home; she no longer has enough for clothes and food. Therefore, he does not refuse the offered bowl of soup.

“They even gave me boots here, otherwise I don’t even have anything to wear!” And... thanks for listening. It became easier.

Here, in the church of St. Andrei Rublev, where they regularly hold events to collect clothes for the needy and homeless. The result of the current one is the 44th in a row - a complete “Gazelle” of things. Volunteers from the “Mercy” society are not able to lift such bags - it consists mainly of elderly parishioners. The “Andreevtsy” - a youth group of the temple, from which three guys from Moscow State University came today: Dima from the Faculty of Soil Science, Anya from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, and Kostya from the Faculty of Physics - are helping to load the load. After which everyone gathers in... the garage-change house, which replaces the refectory.

They offer to immortalize philanthropists: bricks with the names of donors are placed in the wall

The Church of Andrei Rublev will someday become the largest in the Ramenka area: 3000 square meters is a third of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. With two chapels - for 400 and 900 parishioners, classes for Sunday school, a cinema hall, a prosphora, a sacristy, and an icon-painting workshop. But for now, services are held next door - in the wooden Church of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Construction of the stone church began in 2008, but it is still in the woods - it is being built with donations from parishioners.

“I have as many workers as I can pay,” explains the rector of the church, Archpriest Andrei Galukhin. — Now there are three monolithic workers and four masons. To put a roof under it, we need 30 million rubles, but in total we are collecting 150 million for construction.

They offer to immortalize philanthropists: bricks with the names of donors are placed in the wall.

Candidates for rank

Father Andrey Galukhin shows a temporary temple from the window of the one under construction

The path to the temple began back in 1993. First, explains Father Andrei, the community gathered, registered, and began begging for land - this is not easy in Moscow. Then, by decree of the Moscow Government, a vacant lot was allocated, and then, with the blessing of the Patriarch, work began on the project. It’s also slow: there are a lot of communications around that need to be taken into account, plus the Ramenki metro station is being built.

— In 2001, this wooden chapel was built. There is nothing more permanent than temporary,” Father Andrey laughs. — During the liturgy, 200 people stand here! Many people were baptized here, got married, someone was escorted into another world...

It was from this small church that the path to Orthodoxy began for priest Gleb Kiselyov, a graduate of the Faculty of Physics of Moscow State University, and now a cleric of the Andrei Rublev Church. He said he was brought to church by his wife.

Father Gleb Kiselev

— I came to the temple about 10 years ago, I wanted to become a priest. But you cannot become one right away: this is a long procedure, you need to receive a higher spiritual education. Then I was ordained, and I already had a large family, three children - now there are five. I had to work in science (father Gleb is a candidate of physical and mathematical sciences - “TD”), but I always perceived science as something external. The time has come - I became a priest.

There are now two candidates of science serving in the church - also Father Nikolai from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics. And also Father Alexander, also a graduate of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics.

For Archpriest Alexander Nikolsky, the path to God began right in the corridor of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics. “Once I was walking past a smoking room, I heard students talking and my ear caught the words “father” and “conversations.” He returned to the smoking room and asked: “What kind of priest, what kind of conversation?” So he came to his future confessor, then entered the seminary and became a priest,” this is how 22-year-old Kostya, one of the “Andreevites,” tells the story of Father Alexander.

Missionaries from Ramenki

The Church of Andrei Rublev will someday become the largest in the Ramenka area: 3000 square meters is a third of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior

The youth group “Andreevtsy” rallied around Father Alexander: having once come to faith through conversations with parishioners, he began to conduct them himself. And now history is repeating itself with new generations of Moscow State University students. The same Kostya, a graduate of the physics department, came to church in his first year, also hooked on the words “father” and “conversations.” Or 27-year-old Anya: “A friend in the dorm told me about Father Alexander, so I came to the temple,” and for eight years she hasn’t left.

- So what are we talking about?

“Mainly about the relationships between boys and girls,” Dima, a first-year student at the Faculty of Soil Science, enters the conversation. He came to the temple as a schoolboy because, as he laconically explains, “there was a need.”

“But the conversations are not only about marriage. For example, there was such a topic as Orthodoxy and sports,” continues Kostya. - Although, of course, the ones about family are the most popular. All of our priests have many children: Father Alexander, for example, has ten children!

“Andreevtsy”, like any youth group in any parish, go on pilgrimage trips together, watch and discuss movies. Some people simultaneously participate in volunteer activities of the parish group “Mercy”.

Father Andrey, Kostya and Dima

- But just communication is not enough. As Father Alexander says, young people need heroic deeds,” says Kostya. — Now we are trying to organize youth conversations at Moscow State University. Protestants gather at the university and study the Bible, but what about us?

“Andreevtsy” together with Father Alexander have already held three such meetings at Moscow State University. Eighteen people came to the conversation about marriage and family—a modest number for a university of fifty thousand people. But the main thing is not quantity, but quality, the guys think: “All these are new people who have not gone to church before, which means we are on the right path.”

—Are there many believers among your classmates?

“Initially, no one went to the temple,” Dima answers. — And then people began to communicate with me, questions arise. So I brought one girl to the temple, and her friend came with her.

Just like with bricks: while they lie in a pile on the ground, they are just building materials. But four masons get down to business - the masonry grows, and the temple is erected.

Photo by the author

Sunday School

The Ladybug Sunday School has been successfully operating for 10 years . It provides classes for children and teenagers, as well as a parents' club, free of charge.

The school conducts classes to expand creative horizons through music, drawing, puppet theater, and choreography. There is a military-patriotic club for teenagers. Children can attend a doll sewing group, a theater and dance studio, and a tourism school. It is mandatory to study the Church Slavonic language, the law of God. Father personally conducts conversations with children on Sundays.

Adults can attend classes with children, attend studios and clubs. For those interested, classes are also held at times separate from children's groups. The head of the Sunday school is Ksenia Ivanovna Ivanova. She personally participated in the selection of age-adapted programs.

Attending Sunday school at the Church of St. Andrei Rublev in Ramenki helps you understand how to be a Christian . The knowledge gained helps you find yourself in life, not be afraid of speaking in public, and learn to help others, bringing joy to their hearts. The class schedule has been selected to be as comfortable as possible for parishioners who do not want to miss services.

Services are held from Friday to Sunday according to the following schedule:

1. On Friday Liturgy at 8.00, at 18.00 Vespers and Akathist to Sergius of Radonezh.
2. On Saturday, Liturgy at 8.00, prayer service in favor of construction at 16.00, all-night vigil in the church under construction from 17.00.
3. On Sunday Liturgy at 7.00, Late Liturgy in the church under construction at 10.00, Vespers at 17.00 with Akathist to the Protection of the Mother of God.

In addition to Sunday school, those who wish can become members of a charity group, helping those who find themselves in difficult life situations, or a youth organization.

Abbots

• Mikhail Evtikhiev (1693 - 1706)
• Andrey Ilyin (mentioned 1765)
• Peter Pogozhev (1782 - 1814)
• Joseph Drozdov (1814 - 1827)
• Vasily Glebov (1827 - 1863)
• John Plakhinsky (1865 - 1866)
• Vasily Urusov (1912 - 1931)
• Grigory Krasnyuk (1937)

from 1963 to 1992 - the temple was closed

• Georgy Khripunov (1992 - May 3, 2011)
• Feofan (Shchelkunov) (May 3, 2011 - June 17, 2014)
• Grigory (Shchelkunov) (April 4 - July 10, 2014) acting [1]

Construction

The construction of the church is carried out solely on donations from parishioners.
At the moment, there are not enough funds to complete all construction and finishing work. But the ministers are intensely praying for the successful completion of the work begun. They are confident that everything is the will of the Lord. At the right time, funds will be collected. Concerned parishioners transfer money to a bank account or purchase special personalized bricks. They can be ordered directly from the church. They will indicate the name of the person himself, and, if desired, the name of his relatives or friends. While scaffolding has been erected around the temple, most services and events are held in the wooden Church of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, located next door. The rector himself, Archpriest Andrei Galukhin, does not hide the fact that he tries not to hire many workers. He believes that three monolithic workers and four masons are enough to get the job done quickly. At the same time, he does not have to exceed the budget for paying craftsmen.

Let's sum it up

Let us not be indifferent to the needs of those who live especially hard, who have to endure all the hardships of existence. Let us pray for the successful construction of the new church, for those who helped build this beautiful monastery.



Temple in honor of St. Andrei Rublev in Ramenki (construction and installation work completed)

ADDRESS: JSC. Michurinsky Avenue, block 37 (Ramenki St., 2)

REPRESENTATIVE: Archpriest Andrey Galukhin

Official website of the temple: hramramenki.ru

Benefactor: General Director of Rostec Group S.V. CHEMEZOV

General contractor: JSC "Elin"

Temple for 900 parishioners. White stone, with a green roof and a gilded dome, as well as a belfry with 3 small domes. The project is based on the Transfiguration Cathedral of the Andronikov Monastery, which was painted by the Rev. Andrei Rublev. The parish house is combined with the church in one complex.

On July 16, 2016, on the eve of the patronal feast of the Church of St. Andrei Rublev in Ramenki, a historical event took place - the raising of the dome and the domed Cross. Many residents of the area gathered to share the joy of the celebrations, who came to the holiday with their entire families.

CONSTRUCTION:

Construction of the main stone church in honor of St. Andrei Rublev began in 2008. In March 2016, at the request of the parish, the site was included in the Church Construction Program.

The temple will be completed by the end of 2022. The interior finishing of the upper aisle is underway. Artists painted the dome and vaults. It's warm in the temple. All engineering has been installed. In the parish house, combined with the church in one volume, most of the rooms are landscaped. The assembly hall and refectory were finished in a fine finish. After the new year, clearing of the temple area will begin. Landscaping - in the spring.

Divine services are currently being held in the lower church, in which, after finishing the upper aisle, interior finishing work will also be carried out.

October 2022: domes and crosses on the temple are installed. The roof and exterior finishing are completed. By the end of the year, the contractor expects to complete the interior finishing work in the upper church.

September 2022: by the end of the year, it is planned to prepare the walls in the upper aisle of the temple for painting and dismantle the scaffolding. The installation of a drainage system has been completed - drainage of rainwater from the roof of the temple. The basement of the temple is being faced with stone, embedded parts for architectural lighting are installed, lightning protection is being installed, and external scaffolding is gradually being removed.

April 2022: the temple is built. Some minor work remains on the facades. In the summer, it is planned to commission heating, ventilation and hot water supply systems.

As of February 2022: the main construction and installation work has been completed, the roof has been installed, the facades have been plastered and painted. The temple has been heated and interior decoration is underway. According to construction manager Vladimir Yarov, there is not enough money for improvement, “however, work in the temple does not stop, people are understanding of the situation.” They even invest their own funds.

The rector of the church, Archpriest Andrei Galukhin, appeals to everyone who has the opportunity, asking for help: “The only church in Moscow in honor of Andrei Rublev does not have enough funds for decoration. We really ask for help! Thanks to parishioners, donors and Muscovites from other districts of the capital, we were able to erect a unique cathedral, which amazes with its beauty even from a distance. As soon as the walls are plastered and the decoration of all the rooms of the upper and lower temple is completed, the icon painters will be able to begin painting the vaults of the cathedral. With God's help and with the assistance of the townspeople who donate to us for construction, we will be able to complete the work in 2022. I would really like to do everything in time, because in October it will be 590 years since the death of the great icon painter.”

On April 30, 2022, on the 3rd Sunday after Easter, the Holy Myrrh-Bearing Women, Righteous Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus, at the end of the Liturgy, at the parish of St. Andrei Rublev in Ramenki, the rector of the church under construction, Archpriest Andrei Galukhin, consecrated the domes and crosses for the new belfry.

After the prayer service, the labor-intensive process of raising and installing them began. The work continued throughout the day and ended only at 21:00.

As of July 2016: the temple is being faced with natural stone, work has been completed on installing the monolithic structures of the light drum, on which a 16-ton gilded dome with a cross has already been installed.

As Vladimir Yarov, general director of the contracting organization Ellin CJSC, said, the inclusion of the temple in the Program was a significant event for both the builders and the parish - things went faster:

At the end of March, the curator of the Program, Vladimir Iosifovich Resin, came to our site for the first time. Then he set us the task of closing the building’s thermal circuit by the end of the year. And look, we are even ahead of schedule in some ways - the dome has already been installed on the drum. All forces are thrown onto the roof. The rafter system is fully completed; next week we will begin insulating the light drum. Before the onset of cold weather, we plan to completely complete the roofing work and let heat into the building. Large-scale finishing work is ahead inside the building,” concluded Vladimir Yarov.

In the spring of 2016: the lower baptismal church was built in honor of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary (designed by architect Mikhail Filippov). The lower aisle does not yet have interior decoration, but on holidays services are held here.

In the future, it is planned to build a parish house.

A Sunday school is open at the church, and there is an active youth movement. Social service is carried out.

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Story

Andrei Rublev himself received the honor of being canonized as a reverend only in 1988. For the first time in the history of the Church, a temple was to be erected in honor of an artist. The idea of ​​building a temple in Moscow arose in 1994. A wide variety of architectural projects were proposed, but due to their standard nature they were rejected. Only after Mikhail Filippov proposed his own vision of the future temple did preparatory work begin.

By 1996, only a small chapel stood in Moscow. In its place, a temple-chapel of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary was erected. His project was proposed by D.S. Sokolov and A.N. Obolensky. But already in 2000 it had to be moved to a new location in order to free up the site for the construction of the Andrei Rublev Temple. The lighting in the new location took place on Christmas Day 2001.

itself began in 2008 . Already in the winter of 2010, the monastery was consecrated. However, the improvement of the temple lasted for several more years. According to the approved project, only the lower, baptismal church was erected. It is similar to the Cathedral of the Spaso-Andronikov Monastery, where the Monk Andrei Rublev was buried. The large semi-circular building is surrounded by covered staircases and arcades to give the temple the appearance of an ancient city. At the same time, the overall appearance is a fragile unity of grace and severity, classics and the Middle Ages.

For the construction of the upper temple, a new project was developed and adopted. Construction in Moscow is still underway . Currently the church operates:

• charity group;
• temperance society;
• Sunday school for children and adults;
• youth organization.

The temple is open to parishioners.

Life path of Andrei Rublev

The Church of Andrei Rublev in Ramenki was built to glorify Saint Andrew, an icon painter and a man who gave his life to serving the Lord. Scarce information about the life of the saint has survived to this day.

There is no information about which family the monk came from. Presumably, his parents were high-ranking, educated people, since during his life only representatives of the upper strata of the population had a family nickname, that is, a surname.

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The monk was born around 1360, and from childhood he studied painting. Could visit Bulgaria and Byzantium to receive education. The young man’s high spiritual experience, which is reflected in his work, allows us to confidently assert that he visited the Holy Lands and communicated with the clergy.

Andrei's life took place in an era of difficult trials for Rus': bloody battles on the Kulikovo field for freedom from the Tatars, invasions of foreigners, fires, the fight against the hordes of Tamerlane. Perhaps these painful events pushed the young man to choose the monastic path.

The whole life of the saint is connected with the Spaso-Andronikov and Trinity-Sergius monasteries. Here he worked, fulfilling the orders of the Metropolitan, and here he achieved creative and spiritual perfection.

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