OPERATING MODE
Daily from 8:00 to 18:00. Please see the text
below for information on the schedule of services.
TICKET
PRICE
Free.
PHONE (PHONE)
8(4932) 30-87-66
PHONE FAX)
8(4932) 30-06-48
OFFICIAL SITE OF THE CHURCH OF THE
TRANSFORMATION IN IVANOVO
http://sobor-ivanovo.prihod.ru
Email:
ivsobor@gmail.com
Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord (Church of the Transfiguration) is an Orthodox church in the city of Ivanovo. Belongs to the Ivanovo-Voznesensk diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church.
The laying of the temple took place on August 27, 1889. The church
was built within four years at the expense of the manufacturer M. N.
Garelin and was solemnly consecrated on August 24, 1893.
The
project of the church was developed by the famous Moscow architect
Alexander Stepanovich Kaminsky. The facades of the main volume of the
temple are completed with kokoshniks, and the corners - with hipped
turrets. The temple is crowned with an octagon with five heads on high
faceted drums. Lush architraves and cornices, two-tiered kokoshniks and
other architectural details give the building an elegant appearance. On
the western side, a high hipped bell tower adjoins the temple, where 12
bells were originally placed. Three entrances to the temple are marked
with hipped porches.
Many details of the decoration of the church
are borrowed from the architecture of the late 17th century. Not far
from the main entrance to the temple, a two-story brick house of the
clergy was built. In the central part of the temple, a three-tier
iconostasis was installed, and in the aisles of the Martyr Nikon and the
Iberian Icon of the Mother of God, two-tier iconostasis, made according
to the drawings of Alexander Stepanovich Kaminsky. The icons for them
were painted by the Moscow artist Ya. I. Ruchkin.
In addition,
several ancient, richly decorated icons were transferred from the
Garelins' home chapel to the temple. The wall painting in the temple was
made by the artist I. V. Belousov. Subsequently, M. N. Garelin and his
wife were buried in the courtyard of the church against the altar.
Initially, the Church of the Transfiguration was designed for 700
people - residents of the village of Rylikha, which existed on the
outskirts of Ivanovo from the beginning of the 17th century. After the
construction of the temple, it became known as the village of
Preobrazhensky and became part of the city after the February Revolution
of 1917.
Since 1931, the temple has been used simultaneously by
two Orthodox communities - traditional and renovationist - who moved to
the Church of the Transfiguration from the closed Pokrovsky Cathedral,
and then from the Assumption Cemetery Church. This use of the temple led
to constant conflicts.
By the decision of the regional executive
committee on May 19, 1940, the church was closed, the interior
decoration was destroyed. Two years later, the believers applied for
registration of the Orthodox community, and on November 17, 1944, divine
services resumed in the church.
After the creation of the
Ivanovo-Shuya, then the Ivanovo-Kineshma diocese, the Church of the
Transfiguration became a cathedral.
The side aisles were
consecrated in honor of Nicholas the Wonderworker and the Kazan Icon of
the Mother of God. Wall paintings and interior decoration were recreated
in the post-war period. The carved gilded iconostasis in the Baroque
style was brought in 1956 from the village of Sarajevo, Furmanovsky
district. This village belonged to A.V. Suvorov in the 18th century.