Description of the attraction
The Church of the Feodorovskaya Icon of the Mother of God, located in the Crimean resort town of Bakhchisarai along Macedonskogo Street 2, was erected in 1913. The temple was built in honor of the image that was blessed for the reign of the first Russian tsar from the Romanov family - Mikhail Fedorovich.
Based on written historical data, the All-Russian Emperor Nicholas II himself was present at the laying of the first stone of the church. According to tradition, foreign princesses, who were taken as wives by the Grand Dukes and Russian emperors, received the patronymic Feodorovna in baptism in honor of the Feodorovskaya Icon of the Mother of God.
The construction of the temple was timed to coincide with the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty. A yard plot was allocated for the construction, donated to the church by the heirs of the famous Bakhchisarai entrepreneur and philanthropist Dmitry Ilyich Pachadzhi. After the construction and consecration of the temple, the remains of the honorary citizen of the city D. I. Pachaji and his six-year-old grandson were reburied in a crypt, which was specially arranged under the bell tower of this church.
In the 1930s. the temple of the Feodorovskaya Mother of God was closed, and the bell tower was dismantled. In the same years, when church services were prohibited, the church was used as a stable and granary. In the post-war period, the former rebuilt church housed a cinema "Ukraine". The church received its rebirth in the late 1990s, when its reconstruction began with the donations collected from parishioners.
The painting of the temple was carried out in 2003 by the St. Petersburg artist Konstantin Popovsky. In the same year, on Palm Sunday, bells were raised on the Church of the Feodorovskaya Icon of the Mother of God, specially cast for it in Dnepropetrovsk.
