Description of the attraction
One of the main attractions of the village of Inozemtsevo, Stavropol Territory, is the parish church of the Beheading of John the Baptist. The patronal feast is celebrated on September 11th. According to historical data, this temple was erected by the wife of the famous engineer Ivan Dmitrievich Inozemtsev in the Karras colony (today the village of Inozemtsevo) in 1914, as a home church.
ID Inozemtsev built a beautiful mansion at the Karras station according to his own design (now it houses the Zheleznovodsk Pedagogical College), where, after retiring in August 1908, he moved with his family from Rostov-on-Don. In the fall of 1912, when an exacerbation of the disease occurred, he was sent to Moscow for treatment, where he died in 1913. He was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery, but a year later, fulfilling the will of his spouse, I. D. Inozemtseva reburied him in the chapel-burial vault at Karras station. In the same year, Karras station was renamed Inozemtsevo.
Domestic services were held in the temple, and on the lower floor of the building there was a family chapel-tomb, where I. D. Inozemtsev, and later his wife Raisa Sergeevna, son Ivan Ivanovich and other relatives.
Initially, the parish consisted of several local residents of the Orthodox faith. Later, when in 1929 the sarcophagi were ravaged in the family chapel-church, and the temple itself was turned into a club, the family made a reburial. The decision to restore the church was made in 1990, and in July 1999 it was consecrated in the name of the Beheading of the head of the Baptist and Forerunner of the Lord John.
Now it is a beautiful brick five-domed temple with a bell tower under a four-pitched tent, outwardly distinguished by simplified architectural forms. The church has a church school.
