The Church of the Intercession of the Holy Mother of God in Cherkessk
is one of the sights of the city. The black oak church was erected in
1730 in the Cossack village of Khopry, on the banks of the Khoper River,
where it stood for almost a century.
The church was built in 1730
from black oak on the banks of the Khoper River, in the Cossack village
of Khopry, Don Region, where it stood for 99 years.
In 1829, the
temple was moved to Stavropol-Kavkazsky and placed on an elevated place,
where there was a large cross with the inscription: "Here in 1767
Suvorov A.V. was."
In 1831, the Cossacks of the village of
Stavropolskaya on their shoulders, disassembled along a log, with the
singing of psalms and prayers, transferred the church from Stavropol to
the village of Batalpashinskaya (now the city of Cherkessk) and
installed it in the center next to St. Nicholas Cathedral.
In
1901, the church was moved to a new location in the southern part of the
city, where it remains to this day. On November 9, 1902, the transferred
temple was consecrated in honor of the Intercession of the Most Holy
Theotokos.
Since the 1970s, the temple has become the center of
Orthodoxy in Karachay-Cherkessia and remained so until the revival of
the Circassian St. Nicholas Cathedral in 2006.
In 2006-2007, the
temple was restored, a hotel complex was built, and a Sunday school for
children and adults was opened.
On October 18, 2012, donations
from parishioners were stolen from the church.
shrines
The
Iberian Icon of the Mother of God, painted in 1904 in the New Athos
Simono-Kananitsky Monastery in Abkhazia
the icon of the Mother of God
"It is worthy to eat", painted at the beginning of the 20th century in
the Russian monastery of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, called
"Belozerka", on Mount Athos
the relics of St. Nicholas the
Wonderworker, transferred to the temple in 2000 by Archimandrite Matthew
(Mormyl) from the Trinity-Sergius Lavra
old Cossack banner in memory
of the "Austro-Hungarian war of 1914-1915" 2nd Khopersky regiment.
abbots
Vasily Finance (July 2, 1939 - April 4, 1941)
Vasily
Afonin (October 25, 1976 - 2004)
Vyacheslav Kovalenko (? - 2011)
Mikhail Samokhin (2011 - March 29, 2016)
Alexander Nartov (since
March 29, 2016)