Description of the attraction
The Church of Zechariah and Elizabeth is one of the many attractions of the city of Tobolsk, which is a monument of the Siberian Baroque. The temple is located in an open place, clearly visible from all sides.
In 1752, the first wooden Zakharievskaya church was built in Tobolsk. Metropolitan Sylvester ordered to build it on a plot of land acquired by the peasant M. Mukhin from the Tatars. In 1757, the temple burned down, and in its place a new stone two-story one with six thrones was laid. The construction of the church was delayed for 20 years and ended only in 1776. The construction work was supervised by the master A. Gorodnichev.
A huge two-story church with a rich and varied decor and a solemn monumental composition is the best example of the "Siberian Baroque". All its volumes - a two-story vestibule with chambers, two side-altars with semicircular apses and a quadrangle with a pentahedral apse - are merged together, thus forming a dense and weighty monolith. Two spherical vaults, one on top of the other, make up the high stepped dome of the church.
Very little is known from the history of the temple in the Soviet years. Like all other churches in the city, the Church of Zechariah and Elizabeth was desecrated, its property was plundered by the new government, and the building itself passed into the possession of the Bolsheviks. Since 1930, the workshops of an artel of the disabled have been located in the building of the temple. After the end of the war and until 1959, the Tobolsk city committee was located here. Until May 1960, the second floor of the church was occupied by rooms for residents. In the future, it was decided to transfer the church from the balance sheet of the Tobolsk city committee to the balance sheet of the Tobolsk furniture factory.
And only in the mid-90s. one of the most beautiful churches in the city of Tobolsk in a ruined state was transferred to the introduction of the Tobolsk-Tyumen diocese, which was engaged in its restoration. Of all the icons of the church, the icon "Joy of All Who Sorrow" has become the most famous.
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Svetlana 2017-14-07
According to the story of the current novices of the temple, there used to be a Tatar settlement on this place in the lower settlement of the city. The Russians and the Tatars lived in harmony and, as a sign of this, the Russian merchant built the wooden church of Zacharias and Elizabeth right in the center of the Tatar settlement. But one day a fire broke out in the settlement, after
Show full text According to the story of the present novices of the temple, there used to be a Tatar settlement on this place in the lower settlement of the city. The Russians and the Tatars lived in harmony and, as a sign of this, the Russian merchant built the wooden church of Zacharias and Elizabeth right in the center of the Tatar settlement. But once a fire broke out in the settlement, after which the Tatar dwellings and the church burned down. After the fire, the frightened Tatars moved to the Zaabramovskaya part of the city (behind the bridge over the Abramka river). And the Russians re-built the church, but already made of stone and symbolically named it in the name of the Resurrection of the Lord …
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