Schedule in cosmos and damiana. Moscow Cosmodamian Church on Maroseyka. Modern data about the temple
The Church of the Unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian of Assia on Maroseyka is an Orthodox church of the Epiphany deanery of the Moscow city diocese.
The temple is located in the White City in the Basmanny district of the Central Administrative District of Moscow. The main altar is consecrated in honor of the icon of Christ the Savior, who healed the paralytic, the side chapels are Cosmas and Damian and Nikolsky.
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Construction of the church
The wooden church on the current site is mentioned as having burned down in 1547 and 1629.
The old stone church, which stood on the site of the current one, is mentioned in the chronicle in 1639.
N. A. Naydenov, Public DomainThe church was built according to the project in 1791-1793 (the decoration was completed by 1803) on the site of an ancient dilapidated church. The construction was carried out at the expense of M.R. Khlebnikov, the owner of the house located on the other side of the street (Maroseyka St., 17).
unknown, Public Domain The church was renovated in 1893.
From the 17th century to 1922, the lane departing from Maroseyka at the apse of the church was called Kozmodemyansky (Kosmodamiansky) after it.
Church architecture
The composition of the church is unusual. It is based on four cylindrical volumes: the main part of the church, its apse and side chapels, equal in height to the apse. On the western side there is a cubic refectory and a bell tower, placed along the longitudinal axis of the structure. Two-column porticoes are placed symmetrically on the sides of the aisles. The difficult task of combining a group of cylindrical volumes was solved by the architect with amazing skill.
Lodo27, GNU 1.2 The Church of Cosmas and Damian is considered one of the most striking programmatic monuments of mature classicism. The development of classicism in the direction of increasing laconicism brought to the fore the plasticity of the main masses of the building, and here this trend was expressed with the greatest completeness.
Despite its relatively small size, the church is still an expressive dominant feature of the area.
The Church of Cosmas and Damian was closed in the late 1920s. In November 1929, it was decided to demolish the fence under the pretext of expanding the movement. In the early 1930s, plans were made to completely demolish the church. The authorities allowed restoration photography and measurements to be carried out before demolition. The church survived.
A warehouse was built inside the church, and in front of it was a beer hall. In the 1950s, the pub was broken down. In the 1950s and 1960s, a model workshop was located inside; in 1965 - a club of automototourists.
In 1958, scientific restoration was carried out on the facades of the church, and the gilded domes and crosses were restored. The interior of the temple remained rebuilt at that time.
In 1972, a new fence was erected around the church, modeled after the previous one, but not exactly replicating it. At the same time, a tall administrative building made of glass and black plastic was built behind the temple. In publications of that time, the construction of this administrative building was presented as a successful combination of new and old.
In 1992, the temple was temporarily transferred to house the library of the Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.
Revival of the temple
The church was returned to the Russian Orthodox Church in 1993. Gradually, the Soviet ceilings were dismantled and the original volumes of the church interior were restored. A new central iconostasis was erected and the iconostases of the chapels were restored.
There are regular services in the temple.
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"Tales of the old Arbat...". Evening secrets of the most famous street in Moscow.
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"Tchaikovsky in Moscow."
Novinsky Boulevard - M. Nikitskaya - B. Nikitskaya - Stoleshnikov lane. – Neglinnaya - Theater Square.
“Well, brother Pushkin...” To the 220th anniversary of “our everything.”
A walk along Tverskoy Boulevard arm in arm with the great poet, as well as in the company of Nadezhda Lamanova and Alexander Tairov, Faina Ranevskaya and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
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"Patriarch's Ponds, Patriarch's Ponds, Patricks...". Patriarch's ponds in the evening and their surroundings. Hurry up, Annushka has already spilled the sunflower oil
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August 22, Thursday. “Tverskaya, which disappeared forever.” From the series “Fragments of the Broken to Pieces.”
“Patchwork” and Postnikovsky passage. Hotel "Dresden" and monument to Skobelev. Famusov's house and the Cantacuzene chambers. Passion Monastery and Church of Demetrius of Thessalonica.
PREMIERE!!! “Three boulevards at a time” (from the series “Moscow Boulevards”). Passionate Petrovsky, Tsvetnoy.
SEASON PREMIERE!!! “Where Freemasonry began in Moscow” (Walk from the series “Masonic Moscow”)
Sukharev's tower and the warlock Bruce. Franz Lefort and the Black Book. Fonvizins and Corbusier. Menshikov Tower and “Russia” And also Griboyedov and a little more Sklif.
Sukharevskaya Square - Sretenka, - Rozhdestvensky Boulevard - Sretensky Boulevard - Chistoprudny Boulevard
August 23, Friday. "Skyscrapers, skyscrapers... The secret of the Nirnzee house." To the 105th anniversary of the first Moscow skyscraper.
“Die Fledermaus” flew here and was filmed by director Gardin. Why was this house called a haunted house, and who drove them away? Some people loved to eat on the roof, and some people jumped headfirst from the roof of the house. And, finally, where the Master and Margarita met, and where Bulgakov and his muse.
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“From Strastnaya to Pushka.” The history of Strastnaya Square, which became Pushkinskaya, and its surroundings.
Passionate Monastery and the House of Actors. The journey of the Pushkin monument and the journey from Lyra to McDonald's. Famusov's house and Orlova's house. "Armenia" and "Pushkin".
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PREMIERE!!! Moscow Malyushinka. The houses of the capital's largest merchant and homeowner Fyodor Malyushin and their inhabitants. To the 175th anniversary of F. Malyushin. From the series “Forgotten Muscovites”.
Merchants Razorenovs and cryptographer Kramphus, polyglot A. Funer and tea in Cherkassky Lane
Tsvetnoy Boulevard - Sadovaya-Sukharevskaya - Sretenka - Rozhdestvensky Boulevard - Trubnaya
Starts at 14.30. Duration: two hours.
Starts at 18.30. Duration – one and a half hours.
“We are following the blue bird in a long line.” To mark the 120th anniversary of the Moscow Art Theater and the 90th anniversary of “The Blue Bird,” staged there with great success.
Moscow Art Theater and Moscow Art Theater and where they celebrated the success of “The Seagull”. Savva Morozov and Fyodor Shekhtel. Chekhov and Gorky. Great “old men” and legendary performances of the Moscow Art Theater. Art theater yesterday, today, tomorrow.
Kamergersky Lane - Tverskaya Street - Glinishchevsky Lane - Bolshaya Dmitrovka.
Starts at 20.00. Duration – one and a half hours.
E. Geltser, E. Furtseva, G. Vishnevskaya, L. Maksakova, V. Kholodnaya, E. Bulgakova, Z. Volkonskaya, L. Orlova, M. Tsvetaeva, M. Plisetskaya.
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PREMIERE. “In the footsteps of “The Master and Margarita.” Through the characters of Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel, arm in arm with reminiscences, associations and all sorts of other, sorry, allusions.
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Starts at 14.00. Duration - three hours.
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Cosmas and Damian are brothers, holy Roman martyrs. Being doctors by profession, by God's grace, they possessed the gift of healing. Following God's will: freely received - freely give, they devoted their entire lives to serving God and people.
Healing people from physical and mental ailments, the brothers did not take payment for their help, for this the people called them “unmercenaries.” Since ancient times, these saints have been revered in Rus'; they are considered the organizers of family marriage, patrons of married life, and holiness.
In Moscow there is a church of Cosmas and Damian, located on Maroseyka, but the history of its creation and revival is associated with difficult trials and difficulties.
In Kitai-Gorod there is the glorious Temple of the unmercenary saints Cosmas and Damian, followers of the faith of Christ.
The Kosmodamian Church gave the name to one of the nearby lanes; until the seventeenth century it was called Shubin.
One of the versions regarding this name says that it was in this place that a noble boyar lived, in whose honor the lane was named: other sources say that merchants who traded in furs and fur coats lived here.
Until this time, around the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, according to legend, Polish lords lived on the site of the modern Temple of Cosmas and Damian on Kitaygorodsky Lane. Mention of them dates back to 1508.
There was a wooden church near the master's courtyard, but it soon burned down, and another stone one was built here. Now the church on Maroseyka is valued for the fact that it miraculously managed to survive the difficult times of the 1930s, when “socialist reconstruction” reigned.
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The Church of Cosmas and Damian in Moscow that exists today was built in 1793. It was built on the site of an old one that existed at the beginning of the seventeenth century. There is no exact information about who built the first building.
What is known is that it was one-story, made of stone, with two thrones. One of them is consecrated in the name of Nicholas the Wonderworker, and the other - the unmercenary saints Cosmas and Damian.
Important! Previously, the temple was named in honor of St. Nicholas, archival documents confirm this.
The Kosmodamian Church was initially equipped modestly; it did not even have a bell tower.
Only at the end of the seventeenth century, at the expense of the God-loving Princess Kurakina, was the second tier built, where a church was built, bearing the name of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God.
For a long time, the church of saints was maintained thanks to the financial investments of the princess, then it became a parish church.
The end of the 18th century was a difficult period for this holy monastery. The building completely dilapidated and became unusable, but at the request of true Christians in the summer of 1790, it was decided to build a new one on the site of the old building, with a main altar in honor of the Lord, the Healer of the Paralytic.
With significant donations from parishioners, the construction of the church was completed after 3 years, the consecration of its premises took place in two stages, this was 1795, then 1803. The project was drawn up by the famous Russian architect Matvey Kazakov.
The arrangement of the chapels of the temple deserves special attention; they, like parts of the altar, have the shape of a circle.
Subsequently, major construction work was carried out to build a furnace to heat the cold room, and the interior was updated.
After the invasion of enemies in 1812, the holy monastery in the name of Cosmas and Damian on Maroseyka was devastated, ancient icons, expensive jewelry, and valuable church utensils disappeared.
It was never possible to recover from this loss.
In the early thirties, the temple of Cosmas and Damian suffered another misfortune: the parish was dispersed, and valuable shrines disappeared without a trace. A decision was made to blow up the temple, however, by the grace of God, it remained unharmed.
Art classes, warehouses, archive rooms and other public organizations were established here.
The sixties were a period when several church buildings were demolished. An administrative building was built on this site. Partial restoration of the church was carried out, but due to various redevelopments the foundation became sloping.
Only on June 22, 1993, the decision was made to reconstruct the Temple of Cosmas and Damian on Maroseyka, and already on November 14, the first Liturgy took place in honor of the glorious unmercenaries.
There are several known cases of healing recorded in the Church of Cosmas and Damian on Maroseyka. The sick, who prayed before the miraculous icon of the Savior, received the grace of God, after which the illnesses left them.
On a note! Since ancient times, prayers have been performed in front of the icon of the Lord healing the paralytic every Saturday. A special Gospel, troparion, prokeimenon, and touching prayer are read.
Shrines
The Temple of Cosmas and Damian in Moscow contains many valuable relics. Parishioners can come and venerate the following shrines:
- The icon of Jesus Christ who healed the paralytic, located in the main chapel.
- The revered icon of Cosmas and Damian of Assia, containing a particle of relics.
- Relics, icon of the Great Martyr Boniface.
- Icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker.
- Icon of the Archangel Michael.
- Icon of St. Luke with a piece of relics.
- Icon of all saints revered on Russian soil.
Schedule of services
The Temple of Cosmas and Damian is open daily for visiting parishioners; the schedule of services depends on the day of the week and on the festive event in honor of which the Liturgy is celebrated.
Every day the Church of Cosmas and Damian is open from 8:00 to 20:00; on Sundays you can go to the temple of the saints from eight in the morning to seven in the evening.
On Sundays, a prayer service is held for the holy saints, starting at eight in the morning. By 8:30, believers gather for confession, and at nine o’clock in the morning the Divine Liturgy begins. On holidays, confession hours are from 8 to 9 am, then the Liturgy is served. On the eve of holidays and Sundays, an All-Night Vigil is held, the service begins at 17:00.
On a note! In the Church of Cosmas and Damian of Assyria, from October to Easter, two Sunday Liturgies are held: the early one starts at 7:00, and the late one at 9:30.
On Wednesdays, the morning service begins at eight o'clock, parishioners can confess, at 17:30 an akathist is read in honor of the unmercenary saints Cosmas and Damian, the consecration of water is performed, and a prayer service for sick people. On Thursdays, the schedule remains the same, but the akathist with a prayer service for water is read to the holy martyr Boniface.
On Fridays, a water-blessing prayer service is performed to St. John Chrysostom, and the akathist is read before the miraculous icon of the Mother of God “The Sign.” Friday prayer services are held at the address: Maly Zlatoustinsky Lane, 5, second floor.
On Saturdays, in addition to the Liturgy and Matins, a memorial service is served, beginning at 8:00. Those who wish can confess.
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The parish life of the church is quite diverse, an Orthodox sisterhood is organized here, and a Sunday school operates. Sisters of mercy prepare dinners for patients in medical institutions, orphanages, and boarding houses.
Visiting the holy monastery, of course, is worth it for those people who want to receive God's grace, peace, and tranquility.
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The Temple of Cosmas and Damian appeared in Moscow on Maroseyka in 1793 on the site of an old church. The history of the parish is usually divided into two periods: the times of the old church and the modern one. There is no reliable information about the construction of the old church. The first mentions of the current parish were found in archival records of the 17th century.
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History of the old church
According to records from 1625 in the book of the Patriarchal Treasury Order on the distribution of salaries to churches according to the royal decree, the Cosmodamian Church was stone and one-story. It received this name from the aisle. At the same time, some documents mention her like the church of St. Nicholas. This is due to the fact that the church had two altars:
- The main altar was erected in the name of St. Nicholas.
- The altar throne was erected in the name of the unmercenary saints Cosmas and Damian.
All architectural changes in the church began in 1651 with the construction of the bell tower and porch. Later, Princess Evdokia Andreevna Kurakina took over the arrangement. Using their own funds, they erected the superstructure of the second upper tier. Nearby she erected another church in the name of. The princess provided her maintenance, including the payment of salaries to the psalm-reader and the priest, from her own funds. In this period Kosmodamian Church in some archival records it is mistakenly mentioned as Kazanskaya.
The unification of the two churches with their transition to full subordination to the Cosmodamian clergy took place in 1771-1772.
Modern history
The Church of Cosmas and Damian became very dilapidated by the end of the 18th century. Hard times did not make it possible to provide decent care and necessary repairs through deductions from the royal treasury. Then the parishioners, led by Lieutenant Colonel Mikhail Rodionovich In the summer of 1790, the Khlebnikovs turned to Metropolitan Platon of Moscow with a proposal to demolish the old church and erect in its place a new temple of the Savior, healer of the paralytic. The parishioners planned to build a temple with two chapels at their own expense. The sanctified letter was issued to the colonel, who actively cared for the holy cause, in January 1791.
The famous architect Kazakov worked on the project of the new shrine, who managed to intricately combine the serene Kosmodamiansky aisle and the southern Nikolsky aisle into a single whole. The entire church turned out to be in the shape of a circle.
At this stage, the temple of the unmercenary saints Cosmas and Damian in China Town got rid of the elements added at the time of the union of the two churches. The main throne was dedicated Savior, Healer of the paralytic, and the Nicholas throne was located in the southern aisle. According to the main altar, the new temple began to be called Spassky, but according to the chapel behind it, the name Kosmodamiansky was retained.
The first services were held on December 18, 1793, after the consecration of the southern aisle. By this time, the main construction work had already been completed, and the southern aisle was decorated. The consecration of the northern aisle took place in the fall of 1795, and the main aisle in the fall of 1803.
During the hostilities of 1812, the Church of Cosmas and Damian on Maroseyka was destroyed. She, like most other churches in Moscow, lost her jewelry and property, so it took a very long time to restore her.
Until 1857, the temple was forced to be divided into two parts:
- The main chapel of the Savior, healer of the paralytic, was used only in the summer, and was locked in the winter. Just this year, an oven was installed in the basement of the church, which made it possible to heat the premises of the temple.
- Two chapels and a refectory were used in winter. Due to the design features of the temple at this time it became extremely cramped.
For the centenary of the consecration of the St. Nicholas chapel, the temple was completely renovated externally and internally. On December 18, 1893, a procession of the cross was held around the renovated church.
20th century trials
In the thirties, many churches in Moscow and other cities in the Soviet space were devastated and destroyed. All relics and valuables of the temple of Cosmas and Damian were confiscated. But the order to explode the holy relic was not carried out. It was decided to use the building for industrial needs as a warehouse and a motorcycle club. Subsequently, the walls of the temple served to organize an archive and an art school.
The 60s brought another major renovation to the temple. Inside, partitions and floor coverings not provided for in the original design were installed. The ugliness of the interior was also reflected in the condition of the temple: a serious tilt was discovered on the floor. At the same time, external work on the restoration and installation of gilded crosses was carried out according to the approved plan. Numerous redevelopments affected and the general architectural composition: three houses belonging to the church were demolished for the construction of an administrative building.
Only in 1993, the holy architectural ensemble was transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church by a corresponding decree of the Moscow City Government. The actual renovation work began that same year. Already in the fall, services took place in the right aisle of the temple. Services in the central part were restored a little later.
Modern data about the temple
Rector of the Temple of the Unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian, located in Moscow on the street. Maroseyka, 14/2, is Archpriest Fyodor Alexandrovich Borodin.
- Lord, Healer of the paralytic;
- icon of St. Nicholas of Myra;
- icon of the unmercenary and wonderworker Cosmas of Asia;
- icon of the unmercenary and wonderworker Damian of Asia.
The chronicles mention several cases of healing of the sick thanks to the icon of the Savior, the healer of the paralytic. From different parts of Moscow pious citizens still come to worship this shrine. A prayer service is performed in front of it every Saturday.
Schedule of other services:
On Sundays, they are held from 8.00 and include Liturgy, confession, and a prayer service to Saints Cosmas and Damian.
On Wednesdays - from 17.00 vespers with prayer.
On Thursday at 8.00 Matins, confession and Liturgy, at 18.00 prayer service to St. Boniface.
In Moscow and the Moscow region there are several churches consecrated in honor of the unmercenary saints Cosmas and Damian. For example, to find one of them, you can go to Khimki. The Temple of Cosmas and Damian is also in the very center - in a place called Shubino, near Tverskaya Street. Another one is located on Maroseyka Street. This is exactly what we will talk about in this article.
History of the old temple
The building of the Kosmodemyanovsky Church was built in 1793 on the site of the former church. So, it is difficult to say exactly how many years the Orthodox parish has been located in this place. What is known is that it was already there at the beginning of the seventeenth century, that is, in the 1600s. There is also information that the former temple was made of stone and had two altars, and the chapel in honor of Cosmas and Damian was secondary, and the main altar of the temple was consecrated in honor of St. Nicholas. By the beginning of the eighteenth century, or maybe a little earlier, the temple of Cosmas and Damian on Maroseyka acquired a second tier, where an altar was built in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God. This church was maintained by Princess Evdokia Kurakina until it became a parish church at the end of the eighteenth century.
New temple
The need to rebuild the church building was caused by the dilapidation of the building, in which it became unsafe to perform religious rites. Therefore, the parish council decided to demolish the old building and build a new one; the petition was submitted in 1790 to the then ruling bishop of the Moscow Metropolis, Metropolitan Platon.
The modern temple of Cosmas and Damian on Maroseyka is that very new temple. At the same time, its central chapel was consecrated in honor of the Savior, the healer of the paralytic. But this happened only in 1803. And the first consecration took place in 1793, when the construction work of the southern aisle in honor of St. Nicholas was completed. The northern Kosmodemyanovsky chapel was consecrated in 1795.
Temple of Cosmas and Damian on Maroseyka after 1812
During the devastating intervention of the French army in Moscow in 1812, the temple was significantly damaged. Much of its beauty was lost, and it took many more years to restore the church.
Temple in the XX-XXI centuries
The Temple of Cosmas and Damian on Maroseyka entered the twentieth century with a rich and splendid building. But ruin awaited him again, but this time not at the hands of foreign occupiers, but from the Soviet government. With the change of power in Russia, religious policy changed dramatically, and this affected all the churches in the country, including the temple of Cosmas and Damian. Moscow, overwhelmed by the atheistic zeal of the communists, lost many beautiful things. The Kosmodemyanov Church was also ordered to be blown up, but this was not destined to happen. As a result, the temple building served as an archive, a club, an educational institution, or even a warehouse.
In the 60s, several church buildings were demolished to make way for the construction of a large administrative building. At the same time, gradual restoration of the building began. Even the church's exterior decoration was restored, including gilded crosses on the domes. Inside, however, the temple remained a non-church building. In addition, due to frequent redevelopment of its space, it fell into disrepair.
Finally, in the summer of 1993, by decree of the Moscow government, the building was returned to the hands of the believers of the Orthodox community of the Russian Orthodox Church. And already in the fall of the same year, the first liturgy since the 30s was celebrated in a side chapel. This happened on November 14, that is, on the holiday of Cosmas and Damian. A little later, services began to be held in the main chapel, although restoration work continues to this day.