Description of the attraction
The Temple of the Yaroslavl Miracle Workers is located at the Arsk cemetery, located not far from the city center. Many famous people are buried in the Arsk cemetery: here are the graves of Lobachevsky, Flavitsky, Zaitsev, the entire Arbuzov family, Altshuller, Feshin, Petlyakov, Fuchs, Corinth, and others.
The two-altar temple was built in 1796 in the name of the holy noble princes David, Fedor and Constantine. The side-altar of the temple was consecrated in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. In 1843, a left side-altar was added to the church in the name of St. Nicephorus, Patriarch of Constantinople-Constantinople. In 1844, the right side-altar was rebuilt and consecrated anew in the name of the saints: Nicholas the Wonderworker, Leo, Pope of Rome, and righteous Martha. The bell tower of the church was built in the same years, according to the project of the architect Petondi.
The temple was built at the expense of the city. It was built in the cemetery for the funeral service for Orthodox Christians. The temple did not have its own parish and it was assigned to the Annunciation Cathedral. In 1925, the Cathedral of the Annunciation was closed and the temple of the Yaroslavl Miracle Workers became a parish church. In 1934, the temple was handed over to the renovationist diocesan government. It was then that a tomb with the relics of St. Gury of Kazan appeared in the church. The Orthodox parishioners nevertheless defended their church and it was returned to the Orthodox community.
In the thirties, many monasteries and temples were closed. Many of the surviving shrines were transferred to the cemetery temple. It included miraculous icons: the Smolensk-Seven Lake icon of the Mother of God, the icon of St. Sergius of Radonezh, the Raif icon of the Mother of God, the Tikhvin icon of the Mother of God, the icon of the Great Martyr Barbara and others.
From 1938 to 1946, the Yaroslavl Wonderworkers Church was the only one functioning in Kazan, therefore it was considered a cathedral. During the war years, funds and clothing for the soldiers of the Soviet army were collected in the church. The cemetery church was the only one that did not close in the Soviet period of history.
Despite its small size, the Church of the Yaroslavl Miracle Workers is one of the most revered among the Orthodox citizens of Kazan.
