Sights of the country: the city of Miass - Holy Trinity Church

Prayer transforms a person, and places such as the Holy Trinity Church, contribute to the acquisition of spiritual balance, the rise of vitality, pacification. The time spent here is priceless, here one wants to return again and again.

History of the temple

The Holy Trinity Church is a landmark of the Urals and is located in the Chelyabinsk region in the southern part of the city of Miass, namely in Stargorod, which is located along the western border of the Chashkovsky mountain range.

The building was built in 1887 on the site of a wooden chapel of the XIX century, near the cemetery. The church was built with the money of local merchants. The construction was carried out by the peasant Pyotr Sarayev, a native of the Nizhny Novgorod province. The project was led by the merchant Belyaev NF. The temple cost investors 12.5 thousand rubles in silver. He enlightened on December 8, 1889. Even more attractive was for Christians Miass. Holy Trinity Church was extremely cozy and durable.

A polished carved oak iconostasis was erected in the church, which merchant Belyaev NF delivered from Moscow, where he was specially made in the workshop of Mr. Akhapkin. The walls were painted with paint, gray marble tiles were laid on the floor, and domes were made of English white iron. Icons for the temple were written by artists: Malov from the capital and Shipil from Ufa.

In April 1896, they founded the bell tower for the charitable funds of Lydia and Nadezhda Romanovski, who invested about three thousand silver rubles in the construction.

Investors NF Belyaev, MP Populovsky and EM Simonov, who took a direct part in the construction of the religious structure, were awarded the blessing of the Holy Synod in the form of a charter.

The fate of the temple

The city of Miass was extremely important for Christians. Holy Trinity Church was originally intended only for the burial service of the deceased. That is why the Soviet authorities left it untouched, unlike the rest (24 churches were destroyed). From 1938 to 1944, the miassic temple of the Life-Giving Trinity was closed by decision of the Soviet government, but it was not destroyed. Church land was confiscated, and property for a long time passed from one source to another. In 1941, the building was adapted to a hostel for Asians who came to earn money at the construction site of a car factory in the city of Miass.

Holy Trinity Church in 1944 experienced a second birth and was again available to believers. For a long time it was the only temple in the district.

Over the years, the Sunday school opened for adults and children (1994). In 2000, the domes of the church were restored and new crosses were erected on them. In 2001, a bookstore opened here, where a huge assortment of Orthodox literature is still available. In 2004, the temple celebrated its 115th anniversary. By this date the bell tower was renovated and a whole ensemble of various bells was installed. Now there are 10 of them, as it was before.

Everyone who comes to the city of Miass, Holy Trinity Church notices first. To date, it stands out with an original color scheme, a combination of red and pink and blue. Next to it is located an ancient Miass cemetery.

Holy Trinity Church: cemetery

The exact date of this burial site is unknown, but it is said that it existed before 1840. Originally, near the cemetery was built a chapel. It was there that they performed the funeral service for the deceased. For some time the city of Miass was without the church. The Holy Trinity Church there appeared a little later.

Here the Romanovskys were buried, they actively participated in the construction of the temple, the merchants Kuznetsov, Belyaev, the mother and father of the gold miner E. M. Simonov, II Redikortsev, the senior, who was a mining engineer and pioneer of the coal basin in Chelyabinsk, Priests. Buried here are well-known in Russia doctors GK Mavritsky, VP Klenkov, writer VR Gravyshkis, Hero of the USSR M. Kushnov and other no less famous people.

Modern life of the temple

South-Ural city of Miass, Holy Trinity Church in which is the national treasure, at the moment meets all believers.

There is an Orthodox Sunday school, a bookshop and a church shop on the territory of the church. Now here not only the burial service, but also crown, perform divine services, consecrate, commune, confess and be baptized.

Arrival in the temple of the relics of Saint Matrona

In November 2014, celebrated 241 year, the city of Miass. The Holy Trinity Church of Matrona Moskovskaya's might was met on November 17, just before the event. Prior to this, the shrine visited Chelyabinsk and Zlatoust. The ark with relics was received by the head of the clergy - Archpriest George Kretsu.

To worship the shrine came thousands of townspeople, because the righteous woman was always indifferent to the prayers of people and helped in troubles, sorrows and illnesses.

The shrine was in the temple for the first time, people could bow to it at any time from 8 o'clock in the morning.

The Holy Trinity Church has a history through which not one generation of people passed, and in 2014 she celebrated her next birthday, she turned 125 years old. This holy place continues to give grace to the soul, pacifies and heals hundreds of people.